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2024-018A — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 58849)
Track 2024-018A (NORAD catalog number 58849) 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 2024, launched on the 18th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2024-018A). It went up together with 2 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 13,699 revolutions of Earth.
Its speed swings from 7.16 km/s at apogee to 7.80 km/s at perigee. 2024-018A flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 461 × 1,071 km, completing one revolution every 100.0 minutes — about 14.4 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is mildly elliptical (eccentricity 0.0427), so its altitude varies between 461 km and 1,071 km over each revolution. Inclined 58.7° to the equator, it overflies every latitude up to about 59° north and south. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 302.1°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 3.51° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~461 km × 1,071 km |
| Inclination | 58.69° |
| Orbital period | 100.0 min (14.40 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.04272 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-018A |
| NORAD catalog number | 58849 |
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
2024-018A 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 2024-018A from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, 2024-018A 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 2024-018A in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- AAC-HSI-SAT3 (NORAD 58848)
- 2024-018B (NORAD 58850)
- 2024-018C (NORAD 58851)
- TAIJING-4 03 (NORAD 58823)
- TAIJING-3 02 (NORAD 58822)
- TAIJING-2 04 (NORAD 58820)
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