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2024-174A — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 61238)
Track 2024-174A (NORAD catalog number 61238) 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 has been on orbit since 2024, launched on the 174th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2024-174A). 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 10,814 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.61 km/s, 2024-174A flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 508 × 513 km, completing one revolution every 94.7 minutes — about 15.2 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0004). Its 97.4° 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 256.9°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.99° 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 | ~508 km × 513 km |
| Inclination | 97.45° |
| Orbital period | 94.7 min (15.21 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00036 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-174A |
| NORAD catalog number | 61238 |
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
2024-174A 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 2024-174A from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, 2024-174A 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 2024-174A in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- 2024-174B (NORAD 61239)
- 2024-174C (NORAD 61240)
- 2024-174D (NORAD 61241)
- 2024-174E (NORAD 61242)
- 2024-173E (NORAD 61231)
- 2024-173D (NORAD 61230)
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