- Navigation satellite
- Military
- BEIDOU 1D
- NORAD 30323
- 2007-003A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Beidou DSW 4 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 DSW 4, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Beidou DSW 4?
At 4:55:35 PM UTC Beidou DSW 4 was over the Indian Ocean (4.7° S, 86.5° E), 35,971 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Beidou DSW 4?
A navigation satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Feb 2, 2007.
Can I see Beidou DSW 4?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Beidou DSW 4, 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
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:55 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 4.7° S, 86.5° E
- Altitude
- 35,971 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,063 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 10.2°
- Orbital period
- 1,452.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 0.99
- This orbit
- 35,869 to 36,339 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:56 AM, 8 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:56 AM, 8 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Beidou DSW 4, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Beidou DSW 4 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
Beidou DSW 4 shares its launch, 2007-003, with 9 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| CZ-3A R/B | Rocket body |
| CZ-3A DEB | Debris |
| CZ-3A DEB | Debris |
| CZ-3A DEB | Debris |
| CZ-3A DEB | Debris |
| CZ-3A DEB | Debris |
| CZ-3A DEB | Debris |
| CZ-3A DEB | Debris |
| CZ-3A 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, 7:56 AM, 8 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "BEIDOU 1D",
"OBJECT_ID": "2007-003A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:56:56.105952",
"MEAN_MOTION": 0.99153127,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00552734,
"INCLINATION": 10.2265,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 55.3976,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 276.5091,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 281.9969,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 30323,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 7213,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -7e-8,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}