Aether 2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/58299

  • Communications satellite
  • AETHER-2
  • NORAD 58299
  • 2023-174AV
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Aether 2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Strait of Malacca

Orbit ends over the Laccadive Sea

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Aether 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 Aether 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 for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Aether 2?

At 5:35:48 PM UTC Aether 2 was over the Pacific Ocean (39.1° S, 101.6° W), 476 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Aether 2?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 11, 2023.

Can I see Aether 2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Aether 2, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Kepler Communications Inc.
State
Canada
Built by
Kepler Communications Inc.
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
125 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, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
39.1° S, 101.6° W
Altitude
476 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,446 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 5:58 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
93.7 minutes
Orbits per day
15.36
This orbit
450 to 459 km
In shadow
36 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,510 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:42 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:42 AM, 11 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Aether 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

Aether 2 shares its launch, 2023-174, with 32 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
ORBASTRO-PC-1Satellite
LEMUR 2 BASSEarth-watching satellite
PLATEROEarth-watching satellite
BRO-11Satellite
FLOCK 4Q 16Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 11Earth-watching satellite
GENMAT-1Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 28Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 27Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X31Earth-watching satellite
FALCONSAT-10Satellite
SPACEVAN-001Satellite
PELICAN-1 3001Earth-watching satellite
UMBRA-07Earth-watching satellite
SPIPEarth-watching satellite
ION SCV-013Satellite
IMPULSE-1 MIRASatellite
ICEYE-X35Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 7Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 2Earth-watching satellite
PROTOMETHEEEarth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 9Earth-watching satellite
OBSERVER-1AEarth-watching satellite
PICO-01A003Communications satellite
FLOCK 4Q 4Earth-watching satellite
FLOCK 4Q 13Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT CGSatellite
LEMUR 2 JK0903EM1407Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 MJR092620Earth-watching satellite
AAC-HSI-SAT3Earth-watching satellite
AAC-AIS-SAT3Communications satellite
EXO-0Satellite

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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Aether 2450 to 459 km94 minutes125 kg2023
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:42 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "AETHER-2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-174AV",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:42:03.751488",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.36081046,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00065383,
  "INCLINATION": 97.3839,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 35.824,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 8.3382,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 351.7969,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 58299,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 16733,
  "BSTAR": 0.00029021882,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00010126,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}