WHDW 28-01

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/101185

  • Communications satellite
  • HULIANWANG DIGUI 223
  • NORAD 101185
  • 2026-243A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where WHDW 28-01 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches WHDW 28-01 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 WHDW 28-01, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is WHDW 28-01?

At 4:41:22 PM UTC WHDW 28-01 was over the Pacific Ocean (19.1° S, 142.3° W), 1,056 km up, moving at 7.32 km/s and in sunlight.

What is WHDW 28-01?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 25, 2026.

Can I see WHDW 28-01?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for WHDW 28-01, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
China Satellite Network Group Co. Ltd.
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
700 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
4:41 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:41 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
19.1° S, 142.3° W
Altitude
1,056 km
Speed
7.32 km/s (26,366 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight until 5:36 PM UTC
Inclination
50°
Orbital period
106.2 minutes
Orbits per day
13.56
This orbit
1,042 to 1,063 km
In shadow
31 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,490 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 3, 2026, 11:49 AM, 5 days old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 3, 2026, 11:49 AM, 5 days old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for WHDW 28-01, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to WHDW 28-01 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

WHDW 28-01 shares its launch, 2026-243, with 9 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
HULIANWANG DIGUI 224Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI 225Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI 226Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI 227Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI 228Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI 229Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI 230Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI 231Communications satellite
CZ-8A R/BRocket body

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
WHDW 28-011,042 to 1,063 km106 minutes700 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 3, 2026, 11:49 AM, 5 days old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HULIANWANG DIGUI 223",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-243A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-03T11:49:54.366240",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.55629525,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00139408,
  "INCLINATION": 50.0045,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 338.6155,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 278.1811,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 81.7491,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 101185,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 128,
  "BSTAR": 0.00022502036,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 2.4e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}