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BB3 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 57760)
Track BB3 (NORAD catalog number 57760) 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 D of 2023's 133rd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2023-133D). It went up together with 12 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 15,417 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.56 km/s, BB3 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 609 × 622 km, completing one revolution every 96.9 minutes — about 14.9 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0009). Inclined 81.0° — nearly pole-to-pole — its ground track sweeps essentially every latitude. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 258.6°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 1.13° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~609 km × 622 km |
| Inclination | 80.99° |
| Orbital period | 96.9 min (14.87 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00093 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2023-133D |
| NORAD catalog number | 57760 |
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
BB3 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 BB3 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, BB3 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 BB3 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- WILDFIRE 7 (NORAD 57761)
- WILDFIRE 3 (NORAD 57758)
- CHECKMATE 10 (NORAD 57762)
- BB4 (NORAD 57757)
- WILDFIRE 6 (NORAD 57763)
- WILDFIRE 4 (NORAD 57756)
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