Starcloud-1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/66303

  • STARCLOUD-1
  • NORAD 66303
  • 2025-248L
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starcloud-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Sargasso Sea

Orbit ends over the Gulf of Mexico

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

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In view from you

Nobody watches Starcloud-1 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 Starcloud-1, 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 Starcloud-1?

At 4:56:20 PM UTC Starcloud-1 was over the Pacific Ocean (34.5° N, 164.2° E), 500 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Starcloud-1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 2, 2025.

Can I see Starcloud-1?

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

General

Operator
Starcloud LLC
State
United States of America
Built by
Astro Digital
Launched
Mass
50 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
4:56 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:56 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
34.5° N, 164.2° E
Altitude
500 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,432 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 4:59 PM UTC
Inclination
45.4°
Orbital period
94.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.23
This orbit
497 to 502 km
In shadow
34 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,560 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 12:57 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:57 AM, 15 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starcloud-1 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

Starcloud-1 shares its launch, 2025-248, with 16 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
KORSAT-4Earth-watching satellite
SEMI-1LCommunications satellite
LEMUR 2 AFFIE-WAUWIECommunications satellite
OBJECT DCommunications satellite
SEMI-1NCommunications satellite
SEMI-1PCommunications satellite
FGN-100-D2Navigation satellite
ICEYE-X65Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X66Earth-watching satellite
ICEYE-X67Earth-watching satellite
OBJECT MSatellite
OBJECT NCommunications satellite
OBJECT PCommunications satellite
OBJECT QCommunications satellite
TOMORROW-S8Earth-watching satellite
TOMORROW-S9Earth-watching 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, 12:57 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARCLOUD-1",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-248L",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T00:57:46.393920",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.22553105,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00032313,
  "INCLINATION": 45.3994,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 67.3172,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 138.6414,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 221.4719,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 66303,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 5645,
  "BSTAR": 0.00032708162,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00007447,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}