- HAWK-12B
- NORAD 64622
- 2025-138B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Gulf of Guinea
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Hawk 12B 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 12B, 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 12B?
At 6:20:07 PM UTC Hawk 12B was over the Pacific Ocean (22° N, 173.8° E), 519 km up, moving at 7.6 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Hawk 12B?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 26, 2025.
Can I see Hawk 12B?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Hawk 12B, 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
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:20 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 22° N, 173.8° E
- Altitude
- 519 km
- Speed
- 7.6 km/s (27,364 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- Orbital period
- 94.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.19
- This orbit
- 497 to 514 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,600 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:34 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:34 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Hawk 12B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Hawk 12B 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 12B shares its launch, 2025-138, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| HAWK-12C | 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 8, 2026, 6:34 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "HAWK-12B",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-138B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:34:38.364960",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.19103588,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00127626,
"INCLINATION": 97.4516,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 313.289,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 4.6259,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 355.5091,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 64622,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 7573,
"BSTAR": 0.00026872974,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00005583,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}