Shiyan Weixing 5

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/39455

  • SHIYAN 5 (SY-5)
  • NORAD 39455
  • 2013-068A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Shiyan Weixing 5 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Tasman Sea

Orbit ends over the Great Australian Bight

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Shiyan Weixing 5 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 5, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Shiyan Weixing 5?

At 9:50:41 AM UTC Shiyan Weixing 5 was over the Atlantic Ocean (1.5° S, 19.1° W), 757 km up, moving at 7.47 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Shiyan Weixing 5?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 25, 2013.

Can I see Shiyan Weixing 5?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan Weixing 5, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
China Resources Satellite Applications Center (CRESDA)
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Spaceflight East Is Red Satellite Co
Launched
Mass
700 kg
Operating
Yes
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
9:50 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
9:50 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
1.5° S, 19.1° W
Altitude
757 km
Speed
7.47 km/s (26,899 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 10:17 AM UTC
Inclination
98°
Orbital period
99.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.44
This orbit
734 to 753 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,040 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 10:12 PM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 10:12 PM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan Weixing 5, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Shiyan Weixing 5 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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

Shiyan Weixing 5 shares its launch, 2013-068, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
CZ-2D 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, 10:12 PM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 5 (SY-5)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2013-068A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T22:12:31.302720",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.43735595,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00131279,
  "INCLINATION": 98.0472,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 176.4389,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 219.1761,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 140.8481,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 39455,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 68251,
  "BSTAR": 0.00014564122,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000455,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}