- Military
- SJ 16-02
- NORAD 41634
- 2016-043A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Iran
Orbit ends over Egypt
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Shi Jian 16 02 xing 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 16 02 xing, 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 16 02 xing?
At 6:41:58 PM UTC Shi Jian 16 02 xing was over the Pacific Ocean (13.5° N, 146.9° W), 591 km up, moving at 7.56 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Shi Jian 16 02 xing?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 29, 2016.
Can I see Shi Jian 16 02 xing?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shi Jian 16 02 xing, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- National Satellite Meteorological Center
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Inst. of Satellite Engineering (509 Res.Inst.)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2 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
- 6:41 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:41 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 13.5° N, 146.9° W
- Altitude
- 591 km
- Speed
- 7.56 km/s (27,230 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 7:25 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 75°
- Orbital period
- 96.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.94
- This orbit
- 579 to 588 km
- In shadow
- 33 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,740 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:18 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:18 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shi Jian 16 02 xing, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shi Jian 16 02 xing 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 16 02 xing shares its launch, 2016-043, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SJ 16-02 DEB | Debris |
| SJ 16-02 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, 8:18 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SJ 16-02",
"OBJECT_ID": "2016-043A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:18:55.725984",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.93856544,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00069106,
"INCLINATION": 75.0035,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 6.0227,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 31.3506,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 328.8093,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 41634,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 56266,
"BSTAR": 0.00016631542,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001739,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}