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AEROCUBE 16B

In orbit NORAD 59291 ZUCN-2658-3339-4865-3108 United States of America

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Spacecraft name
AEROCUBE 16B
Other names
2024-053D
Status
Active
The satellite is in orbit
The network has not received data from this satellite for a long time
Launch and timeline
Launch time
2024-03-21 00:00:00
Separation time
2024-03-21 00:00:00
Satellite appearance
Data for the last 30 days
Orbital parameters of the satellite
Perigee
425.00 km
Apogee
427.62 km
Inclination
50.0°
Period
93.1 min
Semi-major axis
6804.3 km
Velocity
7.65 km/s
Orbital elements
TLE source
Celestrak
TLE updated
2026-10-12 05:08:35 UTC
Two-line elements (TLE)
1 59291U 24053D   26284.94741054  .00019830  00000-0  39210-3 0  9995
2 59291  49.9887  89.7844 0001831 133.8861 226.2256 15.47057112139243
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Orbit history, past year

Mean elements of every TLE set over the past 365 days, plotted against the epoch of the set. Each source is its own line; click it in the legend to hide it. A jump in altitude is a manoeuvre or a bad set; lines drifting apart are a disagreement between sources. “TLE age” is how many hours have passed since the epoch of the source's freshest set, plotted against when the set reached us, on a logarithmic scale. A set the source repeats unchanged does not reset the age.

Prediction divergence

Each TLE set is propagated with SGP4 to the epoch of the next set from the same source and compared with it, plotted against the epoch of the next set; the tooltip shows how many hours ahead the prediction ran. The logarithmic scale shows the size of the divergence and the tooltip its sign: plus along-track means the prediction is ahead of the satellite. This is how well the sets agree, not the true error: the reference is a TLE too, off by about a kilometre. An outlier is a manoeuvre between sets. Sets more than a week apart are not compared.

Time of closest approach, UTC Object 1 Object 2 Distance, km Speed, km/s Max. probability
2026-10-13 09:09:14 AEROCUBE 16B
NORAD 59291 		OBJECT B
NORAD 47700 		1.809 13.27 7.8e-07
2026-10-15 03:45:42 AEROCUBE 16B
NORAD 59291 		R5-S4
NORAD 60206 		2.192 9.46 7.5e-07
2026-10-15 06:55:10 STARLINK-1269
NORAD 45197 		AEROCUBE 16B
NORAD 59291 		3.981 1.77 8.4e-06
2026-10-17 00:06:31 AEROCUBE 16B
NORAD 59291 		CZ-2C R/B
NORAD 61873 		3.054 9.93 3.8e-07
2026-10-17 03:04:21 AEROCUBE 16B
NORAD 59291 		SL-3 R/B
NORAD 14208 		4.375 13.09 3.7e-07
2026-10-17 17:44:00 STARLINK-1553
NORAD 46348 		AEROCUBE 16B
NORAD 59291 		3.868 8.25 7.7e-06

Data: CelesTrak SOCRATES Plus, computed from TLEs of the public catalog. This is an estimate, not grounds for a manoeuvre: TLEs carry no covariance, and the maximum probability assumes a position error.

All conjunctions of this satellite