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VELOX-CI — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 41166)
Track VELOX-CI (NORAD catalog number 41166) 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 2015, launched on the 77th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2015-077A). 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 59,545 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.67 km/s, VELOX-CI flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 412 × 418 km, completing one revolution every 92.7 minutes — about 15.5 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0004). Its 15.0° inclination keeps its ground track over the tropics and lower mid-latitudes. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 169.2°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 7.75° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~412 km × 418 km |
| Inclination | 14.98° |
| Orbital period | 92.7 min (15.53 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00045 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2015-077A |
| NORAD catalog number | 41166 |
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
VELOX-CI 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 VELOX-CI from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, VELOX-CI 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 VELOX-CI in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- KENT RIDGE 1 (NORAD 41167)
- DAMPE (NORAD 41173)
- ORBCOMM FM110 (NORAD 41182)
- ORBCOMM FM118 (NORAD 41183)
- ORBCOMM FM112 (NORAD 41184)
- ORBCOMM FM113 (NORAD 41185)
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