- Military
- SJ-11-01
- NORAD 36088
- 2009-061A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Southern Ocean
Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Shi Jian 11-01 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 11-01, 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 the Tasman Sea LIVE
Where is Shi Jian 11-01?
At 5:33:26 PM UTC Shi Jian 11-01 was over the Tasman Sea (31.8° S, 153.5° E), 692 km up, moving at 7.51 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Shi Jian 11-01?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 12, 2009.
Can I see Shi Jian 11-01?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shi Jian 11-01, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corp
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Spaceflight East Is Red Satellite Co
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 300 kg
- 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
- 5:33 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:33 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 31.8° S, 153.5° E
- Altitude
- 692 km
- Speed
- 7.51 km/s (27,036 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98°
- Orbital period
- 98.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.64
- This orbit
- 671 to 685 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,930 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 9:06 AM, 8 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 9:06 AM, 8 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shi Jian 11-01, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shi Jian 11-01 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 11-01 shares its launch, 2009-061, with 4 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 9:06 AM, 8 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SJ-11-01",
"OBJECT_ID": "2009-061A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T09:06:56.287296",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.63805227,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00096692,
"INCLINATION": 98.0238,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 289.4242,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 292.4151,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 227.0575,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 36088,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 90558,
"BSTAR": 0.00017873362,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000886,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}