Explorer 22

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/899

  • EXPLORER 22
  • NORAD 899
  • 1964-064A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Explorer 22 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Explorer 22 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 Explorer 22, 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 Arctic Ocean LIVE

Where is Explorer 22?

At 5:26:09 PM UTC Explorer 22 was over the Arctic Ocean (76.6° N, 150° E), 973 km up, moving at 7.37 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Explorer 22?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 10, 1964.

Can I see Explorer 22?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Explorer 22, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
State
United States of America
Built by
JHU-Applied Physics Lab
Launched
Mass
52 kg
Operating
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
5:26 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:26 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
76.6° N, 150° E
Altitude
973 km
Speed
7.37 km/s (26,525 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:56 PM UTC
Inclination
79.7°
Orbital period
104.1 minutes
Orbits per day
13.83
This orbit
863 to 1,038 km
In shadow
6 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,370 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Explorer 22, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Explorer 22 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

Explorer 22 shares its launch, 1964-064, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SCOUT X-4 R/BRocket body
SCOUT X-4 DEBDebris
SCOUT X-4 DEBDebris

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, 1:19 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "EXPLORER 22",
  "OBJECT_ID": "1964-064A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T01:19:36.588576",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.83087412,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.01193631,
  "INCLINATION": 79.6899,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 329.5599,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 195.7622,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 163.9802,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 899,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12486,
  "BSTAR": 0.00011937694,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000144,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}