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GRAVITAS — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 68495)

Track GRAVITAS (NORAD catalog number 68495) 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 CH of 2026's 67th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2026-067CH). It went up together with 95 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog.

Moving at about 7.62 km/s, GRAVITAS flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 602 × 812 km, completing one revolution every 98.8 minutes — about 14.6 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0148). Its 97.7° 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 244.3°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 0.93° per day.

Orbital elements

Orbit regimelow Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude~602 km × 812 km
Inclination97.71°
Orbital period98.8 min (14.58 rev/day)
Eccentricity0.01479
Element set epoch2026-10-21
COSPAR designation2026-067CH
NORAD catalog number68495

This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-10-23. 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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GRAVITAS is one of 4,802 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 GRAVITAS from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, GRAVITAS 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 the “When can I see it?” panel in the live view for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.

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