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2024-166B — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 61180)
Track 2024-166B (NORAD catalog number 61180) 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 166th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-166B). As of this element set it had completed roughly 11,353 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.70 km/s, 2024-166B flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 349 × 352 km, completing one revolution every 91.4 minutes — about 15.8 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0002). Inclined 96.7° — nearly pole-to-pole — its ground track sweeps essentially every latitude. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 137.6°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.96° 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 | ~349 km × 352 km |
| Inclination | 96.67° |
| Orbital period | 91.4 min (15.75 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00018 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-06 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-166B |
| NORAD catalog number | 61180 |
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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2024-166B 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 2024-166B from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, 2024-166B 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 2024-166B in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- JILIN-01 KUANFU 02B 1 (NORAD 61189)
- JILIN-01 KUANFU 02B 2 (NORAD 61190)
- JILIN-01 KUANFU 02B 3 (NORAD 61191)
- JILIN-01 KUANFU 02B 4 (NORAD 61192)
- JILIN-01 KUANFU 02B 5 (NORAD 61193)
- JILIN-01 KUANFU 02B 6 (NORAD 61194)
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