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SSOT — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 38011)
Track SSOT (NORAD catalog number 38011) 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 E of 2011's 76th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2011-076E). It went up together with 1 other satellite from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 79,654 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.55 km/s, SSOT flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 627 × 629 km, completing one revolution every 97.1 minutes — about 14.8 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0001). Its 97.8° 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 308.7°. 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 | ~627 km × 629 km |
| Inclination | 97.80° |
| Orbital period | 97.1 min (14.83 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00014 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2011-076E |
| NORAD catalog number | 38011 |
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
SSOT 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 SSOT from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, SSOT 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 SSOT in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- PLEIADES 1A (NORAD 38012)
- NIGCOMSAT 1R (NORAD 38014)
- ZIYUAN 1-02C (ZY 1-02C) (NORAD 38038)
- GLOBALSTAR M084 (NORAD 38040)
- GLOBALSTAR M080 (NORAD 38041)
- GLOBALSTAR M082 (NORAD 38042)
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