RAPSat-1A

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/63228

  • OBJECT U
  • NORAD 63228
  • 2025-052U
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where RAPSat-1A is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Caribbean Sea

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches RAPSat-1A 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 RAPSat-1A, 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 Bellingshausen Sea LIVE

Where is RAPSat-1A?

At 4:54:52 PM UTC RAPSat-1A was over the Bellingshausen Sea (72.8° S, 73.8° W), 518 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.

What is RAPSat-1A?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 15, 2025.

Can I see RAPSat-1A?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for RAPSat-1A, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
NearSpaceLaunch
State
United States of America
Built by
NearSpaceLaunch
Launched
Mass
3.2 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
4:54 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:54 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
72.8° S, 73.8° W
Altitude
518 km
Speed
7.6 km/s (27,371 km/h)
Course
north-west
Light
In sunlight until 5:38 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.4 minutes
Orbits per day
15.25
This orbit
484 to 492 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,600 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 3:03 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:03 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for RAPSat-1A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to RAPSat-1A 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

RAPSat-1A shares its launch, 2025-052, with 56 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
JINJUSAT-1BEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT BSatellite
OBJECT DCommunications satellite
OBJECT ECommunications satellite
OBJECT FCommunications satellite
BOTSAT-1Satellite
OBJECT HCommunications satellite
OBJECT JCommunications satellite
OBJECT KCommunications satellite
AEROCUBE 18ASatellite
OBJECT MSatellite
AEROCUBE 18BSatellite
DROID.002Satellite
TOMORROW-S6Earth-watching satellite
ETIHAD-SATEarth-watching satellite
SPACEEYE-T1Earth-watching satellite
ION SCV-017Satellite
M-SELSatellite
OBJECT YSatellite
LIZZIESAT-3 (LS-3)Satellite
TOMORROW-S5Earth-watching satellite
OTP-2Satellite
ORBASTRO-TR5Satellite
OBJECT ADCommunications satellite
OBJECT AECommunications satellite
OBJECT AFCommunications satellite
ALMUNTHERSatellite
OBJECT AHSatellite
HERMES-1Space telescope
HERMES-2Space telescope
PANDORESatellite
BUCCANEER MMSatellite
LEMUR 2 LEIA-PHILIPCommunications satellite
EZIE-ASatellite
LEMUR 2 LIA-MARTINCommunications satellite
EZIE-CSatellite
EZIE-BSatellite
UVSQ-SAT NGEarth-watching satellite
ARVAKER-1Satellite
ICEYE-X48Earth-watching satellite
YAM-8Satellite
ICEYE-X50Earth-watching satellite
FIRESAT0Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X51Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X46Earth-watching satellite
LEMUR 2 DELOITTE-1Communications satellite
OBJECT BCSatellite
LEMUR 2 EMERSONROSECommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 MARACHE-FRANCommunications satellite
SOAPSatellite
LEMUR 2 THEFALCONERCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 BALTOCommunications satellite
HERMES-6Space telescope
HERMES 4Space telescope
HERMES-5Space telescope
HERMES-3Space telescope

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, 3:03 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT U",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-052U",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:03:56.877696",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.24917885,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00055406,
  "INCLINATION": 97.3729,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 202.7114,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 23.7633,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 336.3859,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 63228,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 9179,
  "BSTAR": 0.00035346871,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00008734,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}