QIANFAN-256

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/101271

  • NORAD 101271
  • 2026-248H
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where QIANFAN-256 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 Pacific Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches QIANFAN-256 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-256, 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 to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.

Summary

Over Greenland LIVE

Where is QIANFAN-256?

At 10:37:58 PM UTC QIANFAN-256 was over Greenland (78.6° N, 56.7° W), 817 km up, moving at 7.45 km/s and in sunlight.

What is QIANFAN-256?

A satellite in low Earth orbit.

Can I see QIANFAN-256?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for QIANFAN-256, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
10:37 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
10:37 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
78.6° N, 56.7° W
Altitude
817 km
Speed
7.45 km/s (26,820 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
89°
Orbital period
100.9 minutes
Orbits per day
14.27
This orbit
794 to 801 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,130 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 9, 2026, 1:51 PM, 8 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 9, 2026, 1:51 PM, 8 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for QIANFAN-256, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to QIANFAN-256 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 1:50 PM, 2 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-256 shares its launch, 2026-248, with 18 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
QIANFAN-249Satellite
QIANFAN-250Satellite
QIANFAN-251Satellite
QIANFAN-252Satellite
QIANFAN-253Satellite
QIANFAN-254Satellite
QIANFAN-255Satellite
QIANFAN-257Satellite
QIANFAN-258Satellite
QIANFAN-259Satellite
QIANFAN-260Satellite
QIANFAN-261Satellite
QIANFAN-262Satellite
QIANFAN-263Satellite
QIANFAN-264Satellite
QIANFAN-265Satellite
QIANFAN-266Satellite
ZK-2 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 9, 2026, 1:51 PM, 8 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "QIANFAN-256",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-248H",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-09T13:51:14.981472",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.27399214,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00053852,
  "INCLINATION": 88.9889,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 327.0172,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 303.9454,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 56.1228,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 101271,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 93,
  "BSTAR": 0.000063087744,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000169,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}