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SHERPA-AC1 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 52763)
Track SHERPA-AC1 (NORAD catalog number 52763) 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 AH of 2022's 57th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2022-057AH). It went up together with 9 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 23,829 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.64 km/s, SHERPA-AC1 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 456 × 467 km, completing one revolution every 93.7 minutes — about 15.4 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0008). Its 97.7° 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 42.9°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.05° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~456 km × 467 km |
| Inclination | 97.68° |
| Orbital period | 93.7 min (15.37 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00080 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2022-057AH |
| NORAD catalog number | 52763 |
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
SHERPA-AC1 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 SHERPA-AC1 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, SHERPA-AC1 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 SHERPA-AC1 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- ION SCV-006 (NORAD 52761)
- VIGORIDE-3 (NORAD 52760)
- HAWK-5A (NORAD 52757)
- HAWK-5B (NORAD 52756)
- OMNI-L2 (NORAD 52771)
- HAWK-5C (NORAD 52754)
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