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2024-226A — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 62185)
Track 2024-226A (NORAD catalog number 62185) 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 226th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2024-226A). It went up together with 1 other satellite from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 8,788 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.37 km/s, 2024-226A flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 1,001 × 1,084 km, completing one revolution every 105.9 minutes — about 13.6 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0056). Inclined 50.0° to the equator, it overflies every latitude up to about 50° north and south. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 313.9°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 3.78° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~1,001 km × 1,084 km |
| Inclination | 50.01° |
| Orbital period | 105.9 min (13.60 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00561 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2024-226A |
| NORAD catalog number | 62185 |
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
2024-226A 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 2024-226A from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, 2024-226A 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 2024-226A in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- 2024-226B (NORAD 62186)
- TJS-13 (NORAD 62188)
- HAISHAO-1 (NORAD 62190)
- COSMOS 2580 (NORAD 62216)
- KONDOR-FKA NO. 2 (NORAD 62138)
- QIANFAN-37 (NORAD 62238)
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