- Earth-watching satellite
- FENGYUN 1C
- NORAD 25730
- 1999-025A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Feng Yun 1C 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 Feng Yun 1C, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Antarctica LIVE
Where is Feng Yun 1C?
At 6:42:09 PM UTC Feng Yun 1C was over Antarctica (72.7° S, 89.5° E), 827 km up, moving at 7.44 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Feng Yun 1C?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since May 10, 1999.
Can I see Feng Yun 1C?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Feng Yun 1C, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- National Satellite Meteorological Center
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Inst. of Satellite Engineering (509 Res.Inst.)
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 958 kg
- Operating
- 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
- 6:42 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:42 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 72.7° S, 89.5° E
- Altitude
- 827 km
- Speed
- 7.44 km/s (26,780 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:50 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 98.9°
- Orbital period
- 100.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.27
- This orbit
- 788 to 807 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,150 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 3:54 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:54 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Feng Yun 1C, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Feng Yun 1C 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.
Launched with
Feng Yun 1C shares its launch, 1999-025, with 1,982 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feng Yun 1C | 788 to 807 km | 101 minutes | 958 kg | 1999 |
| Sentinel-3A | 802 to 804 km | 101 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2016 |
| Sentinel-3B | 802 to 804 km | 101 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2018 |
| Sentinel-2A | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2015 |
| Sentinel-2B | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2017 |
| Sentinel-2C | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2024 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 3:54 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "FENGYUN 1C",
"OBJECT_ID": "1999-025A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:54:47.109600",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.27400653,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00135693,
"INCLINATION": 98.8542,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 27.5489,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 198.8839,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 161.184,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 25730,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 41849,
"BSTAR": 0.0012678333,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003067,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}