Yaogan Weixing 25

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/40338

  • Military
  • YAOGAN 25A
  • NORAD 40338
  • 2014-080A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Yaogan Weixing 25 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

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In view from you

Nobody watches Yaogan Weixing 25 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 Yaogan Weixing 25, 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 France LIVE

Where is Yaogan Weixing 25?

At 6:45:39 PM UTC Yaogan Weixing 25 was over France (45.2° N, 1° W), 881 km up, moving at 7.52 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Yaogan Weixing 25?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 10, 2014.

Can I see Yaogan Weixing 25?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yaogan Weixing 25, 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
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
6:45 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:45 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
45.2° N, 1° W
Altitude
881 km
Speed
7.52 km/s (27,079 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight until 6:48 PM UTC
Inclination
63.4°
Orbital period
107 minutes
Orbits per day
13.45
This orbit
805 to 1,371 km
In shadow
26 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,240 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:49 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:49 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yaogan Weixing 25, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Yaogan Weixing 25 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 25 shares its launch, 2014-080, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
YAOGAN 25BSatellite
YAOGAN 25CSatellite
CZ-4C R/BRocket body
CZ-4C DEBDebris
CZ-4C DEBDebris
CZ-4C DEBDebris
CZ-4C DEBDebris
CZ-4C DEBDebris
YAOGAN 25C DEBDebris
YAOGAN 25C DEBDebris
YAOGAN 25C 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, 7:49 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "YAOGAN 25A",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-080A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:49:00.071328",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.45422402,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.03793152,
  "INCLINATION": 63.3859,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 299.3575,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 9.8619,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 350.9587,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40338,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 58505,
  "BSTAR": 0.000062752605,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -3.3e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}