UKUBE-1

NORAD 40074· COSPAR 2014-037F· Active satellite· CubeSats & Tech Demos· SSO

Launch

Launched on Jul 8, 2014 from 31/6, Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz 2.1b Fregat.

Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat | Meteor-M No.2, MKA-PN2, DX-1, UKube-1, TechDemoSat-1, SkySat-2, AISSat-2 →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-09 07:04 UTC

Orbit class

SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)

Operator

UK Space Agency

Country

United Kingdom

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Jul 8, 2014

Mass

—

Apogee

527 km

Perigee

526 km

Inclination

98.43°

Period

1.58 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for UKUBE-1 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (104 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-4.5 km

Rate

-0.04 km/day

Now

526 × 527 km

Apogee Perigee

Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.

Launched with

4 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2014-037 (Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat | Meteor-M No.2, MKA-PN2, DX-1, UKube-1, TechDemoSat-1, SkySat-2, AISSat-2).

METEOR-M 2 · 40069
DX1 · 40071
SKYSAT-B · 40072
TECHDEMOSAT-1 (TDS-1) · 40076

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