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PAKTES 1A — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 43529)
Track PAKTES 1A (NORAD catalog number 43529) 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 2018, launched on the 56th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2018-056A). 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 44,422 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.59 km/s, PAKTES 1A flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 562 × 590 km, completing one revolution every 96.0 minutes — about 15.0 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0020). 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 50.4°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.05° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~562 km × 590 km |
| Inclination | 98.14° |
| Orbital period | 96.0 min (14.99 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00204 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2018-056A |
| NORAD catalog number | 43529 |
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
PAKTES 1A 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 PAKTES 1A from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, PAKTES 1A 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 PAKTES 1A in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- PRSS-1 (NORAD 43530)
- TELSTAR 19V (NORAD 43562)
- FENGYUN 2H (NORAD 43491)
- IRIDIUM 160 (NORAD 43569)
- SES-12 (NORAD 43488)
- IRIDIUM 166 (NORAD 43570)
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