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APEX ARIES 1 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 59129)
Track APEX ARIES 1 (NORAD catalog number 59129) 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 AH of 2024's 43rd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-043AH). 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 14,068 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.68 km/s, APEX ARIES 1 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 394 × 399 km, completing one revolution every 92.3 minutes — about 15.6 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0004). Inclined 97.6° — nearly pole-to-pole — its ground track sweeps essentially every latitude. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 45.3°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.07° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~394 km × 399 km |
| Inclination | 97.56° |
| Orbital period | 92.3 min (15.59 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00038 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-043AH |
| NORAD catalog number | 59129 |
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
APEX ARIES 1 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 APEX ARIES 1 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, APEX ARIES 1 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 APEX ARIES 1 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- TRANSPORTER-10 OBJECT AG (NORAD 59128)
- GHOST-5 (NORAD 59130)
- JACKAL X-1L-001 (NORAD 59127)
- MESON-1 (NORAD 59131)
- YAM-6 (NORAD 59126)
- LIZZIESAT-1 (LS-1) (NORAD 59132)
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