POEM-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/56308

  • POEM 2
  • NORAD 56308
  • 2023-057A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where POEM-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches POEM-2 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.

Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.

No brightness has been published for POEM-2, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is POEM-2?

At 5:36:39 PM UTC POEM-2 was over the Pacific Ocean (9.8° S, 121.7° W), 575 km up, moving at 7.58 km/s and in sunlight.

What is POEM-2?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Apr 22, 2023.

Can I see POEM-2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for POEM-2, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Indian Space Research Organization
State
India, Republic of
Built by
ISRO Satellite Center
Launched
Mass
50 kg
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:36 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:36 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
9.8° S, 121.7° W
Altitude
575 km
Speed
7.58 km/s (27,284 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 6:15 PM UTC
Inclination
9.9°
Orbital period
96.3 minutes
Orbits per day
14.95
This orbit
573 to 602 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,710 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:27 AM, 8 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:27 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for POEM-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to POEM-2 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

POEM-2 shares its launch, 2023-057, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
LUMELITE 4Satellite
TELEOS 2Earth-watching satellite

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:27 AM, 8 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "POEM 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-057A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:27:17.432640",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.95319736,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00206429,
  "INCLINATION": 9.8886,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 293.9525,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 184.5365,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 175.466,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 56308,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 19387,
  "BSTAR": 0.0001504014,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00002414,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}