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MOHAMMED VI-A — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 43005)
Track MOHAMMED VI-A (NORAD catalog number 43005) 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 2017, launched on the 70th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2017-070A). As of this element set it had completed roughly 47,610 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.54 km/s, MOHAMMED VI-A flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 644 × 647 km, completing one revolution every 97.5 minutes — about 14.8 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0002). Its 97.9° 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 321.5°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.99° 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 | ~644 km × 647 km |
| Inclination | 97.95° |
| Orbital period | 97.5 min (14.77 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00018 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2017-070A |
| NORAD catalog number | 43005 |
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
MOHAMMED VI-A 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 MOHAMMED VI-A from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, MOHAMMED VI-A 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 MOHAMMED VI-A in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- FENGYUN 3D (NORAD 43010)
- HEAD-1 (NORAD 43011)
- NOAA 20 (JPSS-1) (NORAD 43013)
- MAKERSAT 0 (NORAD 43016)
- RADFXSAT (FOX-1B) (NORAD 43017)
- SKYSAT-C6 (NORAD 42992)
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