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AEPEX — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 68506)
Track AEPEX (NORAD catalog number 68506) 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 CU of 2026's 67th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2026-067CU). It went up together with 92 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 2,422 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.61 km/s, AEPEX flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 510 × 515 km, completing one revolution every 94.7 minutes — about 15.2 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0004). Its 97.5° 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 207.3°. 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 regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~510 km × 515 km |
| Inclination | 97.46° |
| Orbital period | 94.7 min (15.20 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00041 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-06 |
| COSPAR designation | 2026-067CU |
| NORAD catalog number | 68506 |
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
AEPEX 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 AEPEX from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, AEPEX 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 AEPEX in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- GEMS2-AMETHYST (NORAD 68505)
- CAMOES (NORAD 68507)
- ICEYE-X72 (NORAD 68504)
- FLYLAB2 (NORAD 68503)
- ICEYE-X76 (NORAD 68502)
- N1-ATLAS (NORAD 68501)
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