- HAWK-12C
- NORAD 64621
- 2025-138A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Ghana
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Hawk 12C 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 Hawk 12C, 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 Hawk 12C?
At 6:21:43 PM UTC Hawk 12C was over the Pacific Ocean (14.9° N, 171.5° E), 520 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Hawk 12C?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 26, 2025.
Can I see Hawk 12C?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Hawk 12C, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- HawkEye 360 Inc.
- State
- United States of America
- Built by
- UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory
- Launched
- Mass
- 31 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
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:21 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 14.9° N, 171.5° E
- Altitude
- 520 km
- Speed
- 7.6 km/s (27,360 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 94.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.19
- This orbit
- 496 to 515 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,600 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 6, 2026, 5:33 AM, 2 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 6, 2026, 5:33 AM, 2 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Hawk 12C, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Hawk 12C 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
Hawk 12C shares its launch, 2025-138, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| HAWK-12B | Satellite |
| HAWK-12A | Satellite |
| KESTREL-0A | 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 6, 2026, 5:33 AM, 2 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "HAWK-12C",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-138A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-06T05:33:53.257824",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.19083793,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00141297,
"INCLINATION": 97.4402,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 310.4019,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 15.6271,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 344.5397,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 64621,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 7542,
"BSTAR": 0.00016910865,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003487,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}