- Military
- SHIJIAN 6 04A (SJ-6 04A)
- NORAD 37179
- 2010-051A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Greenland
Orbit ends over Greenland
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Shi Jian 6/4B 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 6/4B, 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 Shi Jian 6/4B?
At 5:39:34 PM UTC Shi Jian 6/4B was over the Pacific Ocean (54.1° N, 141° W), 506 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Shi Jian 6/4B?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 6, 2010.
Can I see Shi Jian 6/4B?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shi Jian 6/4B, 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
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 54.1° N, 141° W
- Altitude
- 506 km
- Speed
- 7.62 km/s (27,439 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:37 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Orbital period
- 94.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.19
- This orbit
- 491 to 518 km
- In shadow
- 19 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,580 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:37 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:37 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shi Jian 6/4B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shi Jian 6/4B 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 6/4B shares its launch, 2010-051, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SHIJIAN 6 04B (SJ-6 04B) | Satellite |
| CZ-4B R/B | Rocket body |
| CZ-4B DEB | Debris |
| CZ-4B 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, 7:37 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SHIJIAN 6 04A (SJ-6 04A)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2010-051A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:37:42.951936",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.1944408,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00196171,
"INCLINATION": 97.8182,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 340.5571,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 88.3647,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 271.9833,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 37179,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 87882,
"BSTAR": 0.00046916209,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00009926,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}