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CATSAT — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 60246)
Track CATSAT (NORAD catalog number 60246) 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 J of 2024's 125th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-125J). It went up together with 4 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 12,018 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.70 km/s, CATSAT flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 356 × 376 km, completing one revolution every 91.7 minutes — about 15.7 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0015). Inclined 97.2° — nearly pole-to-pole — its ground track sweeps essentially every latitude. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 104.2°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 1.03° per day, matching the Sun's apparent motion — which is what holds its lighting constant.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~356 km × 376 km |
| Inclination | 97.20° |
| Orbital period | 91.7 min (15.70 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00149 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-125J |
| NORAD catalog number | 60246 |
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
CATSAT 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 CATSAT from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, CATSAT 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 CATSAT in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- ROBUSTA-3A (MEDITERRAN*) (NORAD 60243)
- GAOFEN-11 05 (NORAD 60249)
- CURIUM ONE (NORAD 60242)
- OOV-CUBE (TUBSAT-30) (NORAD 60240)
- ISTSAT-1 (NORAD 60238)
- GRBBETA (NORAD 60237)
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