- NORAD 67683
- 1998-067YA
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Greece
Orbit ends over Spain
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches KNACKSAT-2 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 KNACKSAT-2, 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 KNACKSAT-2?
At 5:35:52 PM UTC KNACKSAT-2 was over the Pacific Ocean (49.3° S, 146.3° W), 358 km up, moving at 7.69 km/s and in sunlight.
What is KNACKSAT-2?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 26, 2025.
Can I see KNACKSAT-2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for KNACKSAT-2, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
- State
- Thai Kingdom
- Built by
- Kyushu Instiute of Technology
- Launched
- Mass
- 3 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
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 49.3° S, 146.3° W
- Altitude
- 358 km
- Speed
- 7.69 km/s (27,688 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:17 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 51.6°
- Orbital period
- 91.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.78
- This orbit
- 331 to 344 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,240 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 5:33 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 5:33 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for KNACKSAT-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to KNACKSAT-2 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
KNACKSAT-2 shares its launch, 1998-067, with 12 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ISS (ZARYA) | Space station |
| DUPLEX | Satellite |
| GXIBA-1 | Satellite |
| LEOPARD | Satellite |
| HMU-SAT2 | Satellite |
| HOKUSHIN1 | Satellite |
| HUCSAT | Communications satellite |
| PROVES-ELECTRA | Satellite |
| OBJECT YL | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT YM | Satellite |
| OBJECT YN | Satellite |
| OBJECT YP | Communications 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 7, 2026, 5:33 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "KNACKSAT-2",
"OBJECT_ID": "1998-067YA",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T05:33:56.064096",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.77766899,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00095765,
"INCLINATION": 51.6228,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 286.9141,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 49.531,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 310.6524,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 67683,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 4271,
"BSTAR": 0.00090830969,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00158629,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}