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TRANSPORTER-18 OBJECT BM — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 100942)
Track TRANSPORTER-18 OBJECT BM (NORAD catalog number 100942) live on the WatchSat interactive 3D globe above. Its position is propagated in real time from the latest CelesTrak two-line element set using the SGP4/SDP4 orbital model — the same math professional trackers run. It is object BM of 2026's 227th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2026-227BM). It went up together with 92 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog.
Moving at about 7.60 km/s, TRANSPORTER-18 OBJECT BM flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 523 × 524 km, completing one revolution every 95.0 minutes — about 15.2 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0001). Its 97.4° retrograde, near-polar inclination is characteristic of a Sun-synchronous orbit — the type Earth-imaging and weather satellites use to revisit each spot at the same local solar time. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 3.4°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.98° per day, matching the Sun's apparent motion — which is what holds its lighting constant.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~523 km × 524 km |
| Inclination | 97.44° |
| Orbital period | 95.0 min (15.17 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00007 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-10-21 |
| COSPAR designation | 2026-227BM |
| NORAD catalog number | 100942 |
This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-10-23. The live 3D view above fetches its own current CelesTrak data when the page opens, through an edge cache that refreshes roughly every 30 minutes.
About the Other Active Satellites group
TRANSPORTER-18 OBJECT BM is one of 4,802 active satellites in WatchSat's general catalog — the broad population of Earth-observation, communications, science, amateur-radio and technology spacecraft outside the giant broadband constellations. Browse all other active satellites live in 3D.
Can you see TRANSPORTER-18 OBJECT BM from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, TRANSPORTER-18 OBJECT BM is visible only around dawn and dusk, when your sky is dark but the satellite is still sunlit — and whether you can spot it depends on its size and reflectivity. See the “When can I see it?” panel in the live view for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.
Related satellites
Nearest catalog neighbors of TRANSPORTER-18 OBJECT BM in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- RADIX-A (NORAD 100941)
- TRANSPORTER-18 OBJECT BN (NORAD 100943)
- RADIX-MK (NORAD 100940)
- SATELIOT_5 (NORAD 100944)
- MIKROGLOB-3 (NORAD 100939)
- SATELIOT_7 (NORAD 100945)
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