CLASSIFIED
2024-174E
Unconfirmed · Unconfirmed (likely China)
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This object completes the same Chinese satellite cluster as its neighbors in the 2024-174 launch group, deployed in late October 2024 into a sun-synchronous orbit near 97.45 degrees inclination. The specific mission and payload for this individual satellite could not be confirmed during research.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 296–306 mi (477–492 km)
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- One orbit
- 94.1 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 61242
- Int’l designator
- 2024-174E
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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