Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/100703

  • Communications satellite
  • OBJECT B
  • NORAD 100703
  • 2026-211B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Russia

Orbit ends over Russia

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.

Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.

No brightness has been published for Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Weddell Sea LIVE

Where is Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02?

At 4:55:39 PM UTC Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02 was over the Weddell Sea (81.5° S, 43.5° W), 914 km up, moving at 7.39 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 15, 2026.

Can I see Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology Ltd
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, SIMIT
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
267 kg
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
4:55 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:55 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
81.5° S, 43.5° W
Altitude
914 km
Speed
7.39 km/s (26,618 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 5:48 PM UTC
Inclination
89°
Orbital period
102.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.03
This orbit
881 to 883 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,280 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 10:28 PM, 18 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 10:28 PM, 18 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02 shares its launch, 2026-211, with 9 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT ACommunications satellite
OBJECT CCommunications satellite
OBJECT DCommunications satellite
OBJECT ECommunications satellite
OBJECT FCommunications satellite
OBJECT GCommunications satellite
OBJECT HCommunications satellite
GRAVITY-1 R/BRocket body
OBJECT KCommunications satellite

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Qianfan Xingzuo 26-02881 to 883 km103 minutes267 kg2026
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 10:28 PM, 18 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT B",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-211B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T22:28:49.767168",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.02511185,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00013439,
  "INCLINATION": 89.005,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 264.9771,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 123.1439,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 236.987,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 100703,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 753,
  "BSTAR": 0.000095902875,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000161,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}