Feng Yun 2H

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  • Earth-watching satellite
  • FENGYUN 2H
  • NORAD 43491
  • 2018-050A
  • Geostationary

Current orbit

Where Feng Yun 2H is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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One orbit takes a day, as long as the Earth takes to turn, so Feng Yun 2H keeps above 79° E of the equator and never crosses the sky.

Past trackNext orbits

It never rises or sets

Feng Yun 2H turns with the Earth, standing over one longitude of the equator. From anywhere it can be seen at all it is up day and night, in the same direction, so there is no pass to wait for.

No brightness has been published for Feng Yun 2H, 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 wait for: it never crosses the sky. From the half of the Earth it stands over it keeps the same point day and night, and from the other half it never rises at all.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Feng Yun 2H?

At 6:41:54 PM UTC Feng Yun 2H was over the Indian Ocean (1.7° S, 79° E), 35,800 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.

What is Feng Yun 2H?

A satellite that watches the Earth in geostationary orbit, in space since Jun 5, 2018.

Can I see Feng Yun 2H?

No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: Feng Yun 2H stands over 79° E of the equator; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
National Satellite Meteorological Center
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Shanghai Inst. of Satellite Engineering (509 Res.Inst.)
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
651 kg
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Geostationary

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, 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
1.7° S, 79° E
Altitude
35,800 km
Speed
3.07 km/s (11,066 km/h)
Course
Stands over 79° E
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
3.4°
Orbital period
1,436.2 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,776 to 35,802 km
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 1:04 AM, 15 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 1:04 AM, 17 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Feng Yun 2H, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Feng Yun 2H 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

Feng Yun 2H shares its launch, 2018-050, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
CZ-3A R/BRocket body
FENGYUN 2H AKMRocket body
FENGYUN 2H 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Feng Yun 2H35,776 to 35,802 km1,436 minutes651 kg2018
GOES-1935,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5 t2024
Meteosat-1235,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3.8 t2022
Meteosat-1135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 2 t2015
GOES-1635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.2 t2016
GOES-1735,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.2 t2018

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 1:04 AM, 15 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "FENGYUN 2H",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-050A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T01:04:24.498336",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.00267415,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00030065,
  "INCLINATION": 3.3964,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 77.2702,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 165.2697,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 259.7454,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43491,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 3088,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000118,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}