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2022-098C — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 53446)

Track 2022-098C (NORAD catalog number 53446) 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 C of 2022's 98th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2022-098C). It went up together with 5 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 22,749 revolutions of Earth.

Moving at about 7.71 km/s, 2022-098C flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 332 × 333 km, completing one revolution every 91.0 minutes — about 15.8 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0000). Inclined 97.6° — nearly pole-to-pole — its ground track sweeps essentially every latitude. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 27.4°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.10° per day.

Orbital elements

Orbit regimelow Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude~332 km × 333 km
Inclination97.57°
Orbital period91.0 min (15.82 rev/day)
Eccentricity0.00004
Element set epoch2026-09-06
COSPAR designation2022-098C
NORAD catalog number53446

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

2022-098C 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 2022-098C from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, 2022-098C 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.

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