- Military
- SHIJIAN 6 02A (SJ-6 02A)
- NORAD 29505
- 2006-046A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Iran
Orbit ends over Egypt
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Shi Jian 6/2B 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 Shi Jian 6/2B, 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.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Antarctica LIVE
Where is Shi Jian 6/2B?
At 5:37:18 PM UTC Shi Jian 6/2B was over Antarctica (79.9° S, 90.8° E), 540 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Shi Jian 6/2B?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 23, 2006.
Can I see Shi Jian 6/2B?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shi Jian 6/2B, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corp
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1 t
- Operating
- No: its regular operations have ended
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, 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
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 79.9° S, 90.8° E
- Altitude
- 540 km
- Speed
- 7.59 km/s (27,328 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:49 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.6°
- Orbital period
- 94.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.18
- This orbit
- 506 to 510 km
- In shadow
- 29 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,640 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:29 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:29 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shi Jian 6/2B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shi Jian 6/2B 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
Shi Jian 6/2B shares its launch, 2006-046, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SHIJIAN 6 02B (SJ-6 02B) | Satellite |
| CZ-4B R/B | Rocket body |
| CZ-4 DEB | Debris |
| CZ-4 DEB | Debris |
| CZ-4 DEB | Debris |
| CZ-4 DEB | Debris |
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 8, 2026, 8:29 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SHIJIAN 6 02A (SJ-6 02A)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2006-046A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:29:51.884736",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.18313173,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00034651,
"INCLINATION": 97.6198,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 354.5125,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 32.4951,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 327.6496,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 29505,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 9413,
"BSTAR": 0.00049008836,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00009992,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}