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SITRO-AIS 38 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 61786)
Track SITRO-AIS 38 (NORAD catalog number 61786) 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 BD of 2024's 199th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2024-199BD). 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 14,703 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.67 km/s, SITRO-AIS 38 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 409 × 419 km, completing one revolution every 92.7 minutes — about 15.5 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0007). Its 97.3° 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 125.5°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 1.02° 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 | ~409 km × 419 km |
| Inclination | 97.28° |
| Orbital period | 92.7 min (15.53 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00074 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-199BD |
| NORAD catalog number | 61786 |
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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SITRO-AIS 38 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 38 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, SITRO-AIS 38 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 38 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- RTU MIREA 1 (RS51S) (NORAD 61785)
- 2024-199BE (NORAD 61787)
- SAMSAT-IONOSPHERE (RS7*) (NORAD 61784)
- SITRO-AIS 45 (NORAD 61788)
- SITRO-AIS 17 (NORAD 61789)
- SITRO-AIS 18 (NORAD 61790)
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