TANSTAAFL-002

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/62378

  • TANSTAAFL-2
  • NORAD 62378
  • 2024-247B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where TANSTAAFL-002 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches TANSTAAFL-002 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 TANSTAAFL-002, 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 TANSTAAFL-002?

At 6:20:06 PM UTC TANSTAAFL-002 was over the Pacific Ocean (16.8° S, 121.1° W), 475 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is TANSTAAFL-002?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 21, 2024.

Can I see TANSTAAFL-002?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for TANSTAAFL-002, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
True Anomaly Inc.
State
United States of America
Built by
True Anomaly Inc.
Launched
Mass
275 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
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
16.8° S, 121.1° W
Altitude
475 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,464 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:53 PM UTC
Inclination
45°
Orbital period
94 minutes
Orbits per day
15.32
This orbit
472 to 473 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,510 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:47 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:47 AM, 15 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for TANSTAAFL-002, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to TANSTAAFL-002 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

TANSTAAFL-002 shares its launch, 2024-247, with 23 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
KORSAT-2Earth-watching satellite
HAWK-11BSatellite
OBJECT DSatellite
HAWK-11CSatellite
HAWK-11ASatellite
LIZZIESAT-2Satellite
ICEYE-X49Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT JCommunications satellite
TOMORROW-S4Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT LSatellite
GITAI-SC1Satellite
ICEYE-X47Earth-watching satellite
LASARSATSatellite
TOMORROW-S3Earth-watching satellite
CROCUBESatellite
OBJECT UCommunications satellite
OBJECT VCommunications satellite
OBJECT YCommunications satellite
XCUBE-1Satellite
CTC-0Communications satellite
DJIBOUTI-1BSatellite
OBJECT ACCommunications satellite
OBJECT ADCommunications 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, 2:47 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "TANSTAAFL-2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-247B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:47:14.705952",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.31716336,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00004794,
  "INCLINATION": 44.986,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 222.9271,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 167.637,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 192.4526,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 62378,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 10501,
  "BSTAR": 0.00039654283,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00012093,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}