- Military
- YAOGAN 9B
- NORAD 36414
- 2010-009B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Chad
Orbit ends over Mali
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi 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 Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi?
At 8:07:10 PM UTC Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi was over the Pacific Ocean (58° S, 133.4° W), 1,364 km up, moving at 7.05 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 5, 2010.
Can I see Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- General Armaments Dept. of the PLA
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 500 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, 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
- 8:07 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 8:07 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 58° S, 133.4° W
- Altitude
- 1,364 km
- Speed
- 7.05 km/s (25,387 km/h)
- Course
- south-east
- Light
- In sunlight until 8:37 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 63.4°
- Orbital period
- 107 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.46
- This orbit
- 676 to 1,498 km
- In shadow
- 29 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,870 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:09 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:09 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi 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
Yaogan Weixing 9 fu xing yi shares its launch, 2010-009, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| YAOGAN 9A | Satellite |
| YAOGAN 9C | Satellite |
| CZ-4C R/B | Rocket body |
| CZ-4C DEB | Debris |
| CZ-4C DEB | Debris |
| YAOGAN 9B DEB | Debris |
| CZ-4C DEB | Debris |
| CZ-4C 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, 8:09 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "YAOGAN 9B",
"OBJECT_ID": "2010-009B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:09:42.645888",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.45730933,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.05503635,
"INCLINATION": 63.3652,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 344.7522,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 22.057,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 340.3179,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 36414,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 81914,
"BSTAR": 0.000099167249,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 5.5e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}