- Navigation satellite
- Military
- CHINASAT 32 (BEIDOU 1)
- NORAD 26599
- 2000-069A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Beidou DJW 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 Beidou DJW, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Beidou DJW?
At 4:54:20 PM UTC Beidou DJW was over the Pacific Ocean (8.5° N, 132.6° W), 36,198 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Beidou DJW?
A navigation satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Oct 30, 2000.
Can I see Beidou DJW?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Beidou DJW, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
- Operator
- China National Space Administration
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
- What it is
- Navigation satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2.3 t
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 8.5° N, 132.6° W
- Altitude
- 36,198 km
- Speed
- 3.06 km/s (11,012 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 12.6°
- Orbital period
- 1,455.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 36,149 to 36,200 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:19 AM, 8 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:19 AM, 8 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Beidou DJW, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Beidou DJW 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:19 AM, 8 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "CHINASAT 32 (BEIDOU 1)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2000-069A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:19:52.894272",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.9890635,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00060129,
"INCLINATION": 12.5819,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 31.119,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 330.3651,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 39.443,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 26599,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 9461,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 3.9e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}