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SITRO-AIS 48 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 61771)
Track SITRO-AIS 48 (NORAD catalog number 61771) 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 AN of 2024's 199th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-199AN). It went up together with 46 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 14,724 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.69 km/s, SITRO-AIS 48 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 373 × 380 km, completing one revolution every 91.9 minutes — about 15.7 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0005). Inclined 97.3° — nearly pole-to-pole — its ground track sweeps essentially every latitude. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 128.6°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.04° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~373 km × 380 km |
| Inclination | 97.28° |
| Orbital period | 91.9 min (15.66 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00049 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-199AN |
| NORAD catalog number | 61771 |
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
SITRO-AIS 48 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 SITRO-AIS 48 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, SITRO-AIS 48 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 SITRO-AIS 48 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- KOSAR (NORAD 61769)
- SITRO-AIS 47 (NORAD 61773)
- 2024-199AK (NORAD 61768)
- SITRO-AIS 46 (NORAD 61774)
- 2024-199AS (NORAD 61775)
- SITRO-AIS 40 (NORAD 61776)
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