- Military
- AEROCUBE 16A
- NORAD 59290
- 2024-053C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Aerocube 16A 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 Aerocube 16A, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is Aerocube 16A?
At 6:19:57 PM UTC Aerocube 16A was over the Atlantic Ocean (7.3° S, 21.9° W), 424 km up, moving at 7.66 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Aerocube 16A?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 21, 2024.
Can I see Aerocube 16A?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Aerocube 16A, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Aerospace Corp.
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- Aerospace Corp.
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 10 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, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:19 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:19 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 7.3° S, 21.9° W
- Altitude
- 424 km
- Speed
- 7.66 km/s (27,565 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:30 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 50°
- Orbital period
- 93 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.48
- This orbit
- 422 to 424 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,400 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Aerocube 16A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Aerocube 16A 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.
Launched with
Aerocube 16A shares its launch, 2024-053, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| MOLA | Satellite |
| AEROCUBE 16B | 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, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "AEROCUBE 16A",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-053C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T01:19:59.053440",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.48062341,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00015291,
"INCLINATION": 49.9877,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 310.8517,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 235.6075,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 124.4746,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 59290,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 14336,
"BSTAR": 0.00047235823,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00024857,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}