Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er

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  • Military
  • YAOGAN 17C
  • NORAD 39241
  • 2013-046C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Cambodia

Orbit ends over India

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

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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 17 fu xing er, 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 the People's Republic of China LIVE

Where is Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er?

At 7:26:17 PM UTC Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er was over the People's Republic of China (28.1° N, 112.4° E), 780 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 1, 2013.

Can I see Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er, 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
7:26 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
7:26 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
28.1° N, 112.4° E
Altitude
780 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,436 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 7:33 PM UTC
Inclination
63.4°
Orbital period
107 minutes
Orbits per day
13.45
This orbit
759 to 1,416 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,080 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:35 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:35 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er 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.

Launched with

Yaogan Weixing 17 fu xing er shares its launch, 2013-046, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
YAOGAN 17ASatellite
YAOGAN 17BSatellite
CZ-4C R/BRocket body
CZ-4C DEBDebris
CZ-4C 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, 8:35 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "YAOGAN 17C",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-046C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:35:33.207072",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.45492282,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.04399117,
  "INCLINATION": 63.3842,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 77.7292,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 12.2373,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 348.8933,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39241,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 64777,
  "BSTAR": -0.000034719773,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000128,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}