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HAWK-8A — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 59443)
Track HAWK-8A (NORAD catalog number 59443) 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 B of 2024's 66th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-066B). It went up together with 10 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 13,215 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.58 km/s, HAWK-8A flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 575 × 577 km, completing one revolution every 96.0 minutes — about 15.0 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0002). Inclined 45.6° to the equator, it overflies every latitude up to about 46° north and south. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 212.2°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 5.17° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~575 km × 577 km |
| Inclination | 45.60° |
| Orbital period | 96.0 min (14.99 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00018 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-066B |
| NORAD catalog number | 59443 |
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
HAWK-8A 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 HAWK-8A from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, HAWK-8A 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 HAWK-8A in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- TSAT-1A (NORAD 59442)
- CAPELLA-14 (ACADIA-4) (NORAD 59444)
- HAWK-8B (NORAD 59445)
- HAWK-9A (NORAD 59446)
- QPS-SAR-7 (TSUKUYOMI-II) (NORAD 59447)
- HAWK-9C (NORAD 59448)
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