Shiyan Weixing 7

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39208

  • PAYLOAD A
  • NORAD 39208
  • 2013-037A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Shiyan Weixing 7 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Poland

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

In view from you

Nobody watches Shiyan Weixing 7 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 Shiyan Weixing 7, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Spain LIVE

Where is Shiyan Weixing 7?

At 5:33:45 PM UTC Shiyan Weixing 7 was over Spain (39.3° N, 2.7° W), 653 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Shiyan Weixing 7?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 19, 2013.

Can I see Shiyan Weixing 7?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan Weixing 7, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
China National Space Administration
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Spaceflight East Is Red Satellite Co
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, 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
39.3° N, 2.7° W
Altitude
653 km
Speed
7.54 km/s (27,137 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.1°
Orbital period
97.8 minutes
Orbits per day
14.72
This orbit
644 to 657 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,860 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:58 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:58 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan Weixing 7, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Shiyan Weixing 7 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

Shiyan Weixing 7 shares its launch, 2013-037, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
PAYLOAD BCommunications satellite
PAYLOAD CSatellite
CZ-4C R/BRocket body
CZ-4C DEBDebris
CZ-4C DEBDebris
CZ-4C DEBDebris
CZ-4C DEBDebris
PAYLOAD A DEBDebris

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, 5:58 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "PAYLOAD A",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-037A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:58:00.525216",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.72419652,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00088885,
  "INCLINATION": 98.0935,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 314.8476,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 53.5067,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 306.6958,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39208,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 71340,
  "BSTAR": 0.00012947195,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000077,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}