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USA 119 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 23893)
Track USA 119 (NORAD catalog number 23893) 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 has been on orbit since 1996, launched on the 29th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 1996-029A).
Its speed swings from 6.71 km/s at apogee to 7.96 km/s at perigee. USA 119 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 454 × 1,731 km, completing one revolution every 106.9 minutes — about 13.5 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is mildly elliptical (eccentricity 0.0855), so its altitude varies between 454 km and 1,731 km over each revolution. Inclined 63.3° to the equator, it overflies every latitude up to about 63° north and south. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 337.2°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 2.62° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~454 km × 1,731 km |
| Inclination | 63.32° |
| Orbital period | 106.9 min (13.46 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.08553 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 1996-029A |
| NORAD catalog number | 23893 |
This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-09-08. 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
USA 119 is one of 4,471 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 USA 119 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, USA 119 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 pass predictions for your location for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.
Related satellites
Nearest catalog neighbors of USA 119 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- INMARSAT 3-F1 (NORAD 23839)
- POLAR (NORAD 23802)
- USA 115 (MILSTAR-1 2) (NORAD 23712)
- TDRS 7 (NORAD 23613)
- JAS-2 (FO-29) (NORAD 24278)
- INMARSAT 3-F2 (NORAD 24307)
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