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NANOSATC-BR1 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 40024)
Track NANOSATC-BR1 (NORAD catalog number 40024) 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 Q of 2014's 33rd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2014-033Q). It went up together with 21 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 66,649 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.63 km/s, NANOSATC-BR1 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 470 × 473 km, completing one revolution every 93.9 minutes — about 15.3 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0002). Its 98.1° 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 289.6°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.09° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~470 km × 473 km |
| Inclination | 98.07° |
| Orbital period | 93.9 min (15.34 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00020 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-06 |
| COSPAR designation | 2014-033Q |
| NORAD catalog number | 40024 |
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.
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NANOSATC-BR1 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 NANOSATC-BR1 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, NANOSATC-BR1 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 NANOSATC-BR1 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- QB50P1 (NORAD 40025)
- DUCHIFAT-1 (NORAD 40021)
- BRITE-CA1 (TORONTO) (NORAD 40020)
- APRIZESAT 10 (NORAD 40019)
- APRIZESAT 9 (NORAD 40018)
- DTUSAT-2 (NORAD 40030)
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