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CARTOSAT-2A — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 32783)
Track CARTOSAT-2A (NORAD catalog number 32783) 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 2008, launched on the 21st orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2008-021A). It went up together with 3 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog.
Moving at about 7.55 km/s, CARTOSAT-2A flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 630 × 647 km, completing one revolution every 97.3 minutes — about 14.8 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0012). Its 97.8° 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 305.4°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.97° 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 | ~630 km × 647 km |
| Inclination | 97.75° |
| Orbital period | 97.3 min (14.79 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00119 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-16 |
| COSPAR designation | 2008-021A |
| NORAD catalog number | 32783 |
This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-09-17. 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
CARTOSAT-2A is one of 4,464 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 CARTOSAT-2A from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, CARTOSAT-2A 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 are available on this page once you select the satellite and share your position for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.
Related satellites
Nearest catalog neighbors of CARTOSAT-2A in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- CUTE-1.7+APD II (CO-65) (NORAD 32785)
- CANX-2 (NORAD 32790)
- SEEDS II (CO-66) (NORAD 32791)
- AMOS-3 (NORAD 32794)
- STAR ONE C2 (NORAD 32768)
- VINASAT-1 (NORAD 32767)
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