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JACKAL X-1L-001 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 59127)
Track JACKAL X-1L-001 (NORAD catalog number 59127) 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 AF of 2024's 43rd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-043AF). It went up together with 32 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 14,021 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.66 km/s, JACKAL X-1L-001 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 430 × 437 km, completing one revolution every 93.1 minutes — about 15.5 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0005). Its 97.6° 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 38.6°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.05° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~430 km × 437 km |
| Inclination | 97.57° |
| Orbital period | 93.1 min (15.47 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00053 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-043AF |
| NORAD catalog number | 59127 |
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.
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JACKAL X-1L-001 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 JACKAL X-1L-001 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, JACKAL X-1L-001 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 JACKAL X-1L-001 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- YAM-6 (NORAD 59126)
- TRANSPORTER-10 OBJECT AG (NORAD 59128)
- TRANSPORTER-10 OBJECT AD (NORAD 59125)
- APEX ARIES 1 (NORAD 59129)
- VSP ROSE (NORAD 59124)
- GHOST-5 (NORAD 59130)
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