Beidou DW 4

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/36590

  • Navigation satellite
  • Military
  • BEIDOU 4
  • NORAD 36590
  • 2010-024A
  • Geostationary

Current orbit

Where Beidou DW 4 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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One orbit takes a day, as long as the Earth takes to turn, so Beidou DW 4 keeps above 79.7° E of the equator and never crosses the sky.

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It never rises or sets

Beidou DW 4 turns with the Earth, standing over one longitude of the equator. From anywhere it can be seen at all it is up day and night, in the same direction, so there is no pass to wait for.

No brightness has been published for Beidou DW 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 wait for: it never crosses the sky. From the half of the Earth it stands over it keeps the same point day and night, and from the other half it never rises at all.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Beidou DW 4?

At 4:56:07 PM UTC Beidou DW 4 was over the Indian Ocean (3° S, 79.7° E), 35,770 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.

What is Beidou DW 4?

A navigation satellite in geostationary orbit, in space since Jun 2, 2010.

Can I see Beidou DW 4?

No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: Beidou DW 4 stands over 79.7° E of the equator; 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 3.1 t
Operating
Orbit class
Geostationary

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
4:56 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:56 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
3° S, 79.7° E
Altitude
35,770 km
Speed
3.08 km/s (11,074 km/h)
Course
Stands over 79.7° E
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
4.9°
Orbital period
1,436.1 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,771 to 35,804 km
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 9:39 PM, 19 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 9:39 PM, 19 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Beidou DW 4, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Beidou DW 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 9:39 PM, 19 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "BEIDOU 4",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2010-024A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T21:39:21.644640",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.002738,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0003906,
  "INCLINATION": 4.8548,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 60.7457,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 334.5516,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 56.2641,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 36590,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 6021,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.0000013,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}