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OBZOR-R 1 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 67234)

Track OBZOR-R 1 (NORAD catalog number 67234) 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 2025, launched on the 310th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2025-310A). As of this element set it had completed roughly 3,769 revolutions of Earth.

Moving at about 7.54 km/s, OBZOR-R 1 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 648 × 650 km, completing one revolution every 97.6 minutes — about 14.8 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0001). Its 98.0° 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 256.1°. 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 regimelow Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude~648 km × 650 km
Inclination97.97°
Orbital period97.6 min (14.76 rev/day)
Eccentricity0.00014
Element set epoch2026-09-06
COSPAR designation2025-310A
NORAD catalog number67234

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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Can you see OBZOR-R 1 from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, OBZOR-R 1 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.

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