BEIDOU 3M12

LIVE

Link to this page

https://orbinauts.com/satellites/43603

  • Navigation satellite
  • NORAD 43603
  • 2018-067B
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where BEIDOU 3M12 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Niger

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

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In view from you

Nobody watches BEIDOU 3M12 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 BEIDOU 3M12, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.

Summary

Over the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is BEIDOU 3M12?

At 8:57:14 PM UTC BEIDOU 3M12 was over the Indian Ocean (54.1° S, 130.2° E), 21,556 km up, moving at 3.78 km/s and in sunlight.

What is BEIDOU 3M12?

A navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, one of the 37 navigation satellites of the BeiDou constellation.

Can I see BEIDOU 3M12?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for BEIDOU 3M12, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.

General

BEIDOU 3M12 is one of the 37 navigation satellites of the BeiDou constellation. See every BeiDou satellite and how many are above you right now.

Known to its operator as
C25
Typical altitude
21,450 to 21,600 km

Latest orbital data

Position received
8:57 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
8:57 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
54.1° S, 130.2° E
Altitude
21,556 km
Speed
3.78 km/s (13,597 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 6:16 AM UTC
Inclination
54.2°
Orbital period
773.2 minutes
Orbits per day
1.86
This orbit
21,514 to 21,543 km
In shadow
56 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 7,450 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Sep 16, 2026, 8:44 PM, 2 days old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Sep 16, 2026, 8:44 PM, 2 days old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for BEIDOU 3M12, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
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Beside the others

ConstellationSatellitesTypical altitudeOrbital periodPlanesOperator
BeiDou3721,450 to 21,600 km773 minutes—The China Satellite Navigation Office
GPS3220,000 to 20,400 km718 minutes6The United States Space Force
Galileo2723,100 to 23,300 km845 minutes—EUSPA, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme
GLONASS2219,050 to 19,200 km676 minutes—Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corporation

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Sep 16, 2026, 8:44 PM, 2 days old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "BEIDOU 3M12",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-067B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-09-16T20:44:35.150208",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.86227141,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00053464,
  "INCLINATION": 54.1754,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 177.8963,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 25.8796,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 334.1719,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43603,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 5485,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -8e-8,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}