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RAPTOR1 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 58957)
Track RAPTOR1 (NORAD catalog number 58957) 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 2024's 28th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-028C). 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 12,822 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.37 km/s, RAPTOR1 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 983 × 1,000 km, completing one revolution every 104.8 minutes — about 13.7 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0012). Its 40.0° inclination keeps its ground track over the tropics and lower mid-latitudes. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 29.0°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 4.62° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~983 km × 1,000 km |
| Inclination | 39.99° |
| Orbital period | 104.8 min (13.74 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00117 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-06 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-028C |
| NORAD catalog number | 58957 |
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
RAPTOR1 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 RAPTOR1 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, RAPTOR1 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 RAPTOR1 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- RAPTOR4 (NORAD 58956)
- RAPTOR3 (NORAD 58958)
- HBTSS-SV2 (NORAD 58955)
- RAPTOR2 (NORAD 58959)
- HBTSS-SV1 (NORAD 58960)
- COSMOS 2575 (NORAD 58929)
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