- NORAD 60527
- 2024-149BM
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Canada
Orbit ends over Canada
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches CUAVA-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 CUAVA-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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is CUAVA-2?
At 6:44:50 PM UTC CUAVA-2 was over the Pacific Ocean (4.7° S, 115° W), 450 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in sunlight.
What is CUAVA-2?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 16, 2024.
Can I see CUAVA-2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for CUAVA-2, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- University of Sydney
- State
- Australia, Commonwealth of
- Built by
- University of Sydney
- 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:44 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:44 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 4.7° S, 115° W
- Altitude
- 450 km
- Speed
- 7.64 km/s (27,518 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 7:16 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 93.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.39
- This orbit
- 440 to 450 km
- In shadow
- 36 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,460 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 11:13 PM, 19 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:13 PM, 19 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for CUAVA-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to CUAVA-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.
Launched with
CUAVA-2 shares its launch, 2024-149, with 87 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OBJECT A | Satellite |
| WARATAH SEED-1 | Satellite |
| PHISAT 2 | Satellite |
| LEMUR 2 TOMATOKECHUP | Communications satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-1 | Communications satellite |
| LOPEN | Satellite |
| ROCK | Satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-3 | Communications satellite |
| QUBE | Communications satellite |
| WREN-1 | Satellite |
| TOMORROW-S1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 18 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 7 | Earth-watching satellite |
| TOMORROW-S2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 36 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 25 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 31 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 20 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 23 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 17 | Earth-watching satellite |
| NUSAT-50 (NANCY ROMAN) | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 22 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 34 | Earth-watching satellite |
| TYCHE | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 32 | Earth-watching satellite |
| NUSAT-48 (H. LEAVITT) | Earth-watching satellite |
| NUSAT-49(K.VON NEUMANN) | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 11 | Earth-watching satellite |
| YAM-7 | Satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 24 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LUR-1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| TANAGER-1 4001 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 29 | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT AU | Communications satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 13 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 27 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 9 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 6 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 14 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 1 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 28 | Earth-watching satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-2 | Communications satellite |
| CONNECTA IOT-4 | Communications satellite |
| ORESAT0.5 | Satellite |
| DEIMOS | Earth-watching satellite |
| ERNST | Satellite |
| OBJECT BQ | Earth-watching satellite |
| HYPSO-2 | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMU-NGE | Earth-watching satellite |
| LEMUR 2 STELLA | Communications satellite |
| SATELIOT_2 | Communications satellite |
| NIGHTJAR | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 MARHISYAM | Communications satellite |
| SATELIOT_4 | Communications satellite |
| PICO-02A021 | Communications satellite |
| ICEYE-X43 | Earth-watching satellite |
| HAWK-10A | Satellite |
| UMBRA-09 | Earth-watching satellite |
| QPS-SAR-8 AMATERU-IV | Earth-watching satellite |
| ARCTIC WEATHER SATELLITE | Earth-watching satellite |
| CAPELLA-15 (ACADIA) | Earth-watching satellite |
| HAWK-10B | Satellite |
| ICEYE-X39 | Earth-watching satellite |
| UMBRA-10 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X33 | Earth-watching satellite |
| ICEYE-X40 | Earth-watching satellite |
| SATELIOT_1 | Communications satellite |
| BRO-14 | Satellite |
| SATELIOT_3 | Communications satellite |
| BRO-15 | Satellite |
| UM5-RIBAT | Satellite |
| UM5-EOSAT | Earth-watching satellite |
| KANYINI | Communications satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 5 | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 3 | Earth-watching satellite |
| HYPERFIELD-1A | Earth-watching satellite |
| FLOCK 4BE 19 | Earth-watching satellite |
| PTD-4 | Satellite |
| ION SCV-012 | Satellite |
| GNOMES-5 | Communications satellite |
| HAWK-10C | Satellite |
| LEMUR 2 AHMED-ASRAR | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 LLOYD | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 SQUIRRELCOMM | Communications satellite |
| LEMUR 2 SIERRINI | Communications satellite |
| SEDNA-1 | Communications 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 7, 2026, 11:13 PM, 19 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "CUAVA-2",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-149BM",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:13:33.744288",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.39238753,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00073073,
"INCLINATION": 97.3648,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 33.9631,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 128.4218,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 231.7684,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 60527,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 12426,
"BSTAR": 0.00052642619,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0002045,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}