Shiyan 6

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/43711

  • Military
  • SHIYAN 6 (SY-6)
  • NORAD 43711
  • 2018-094B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Shiyan 6 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over South Sudan

Orbit ends over Cameroon

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Shiyan 6 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 6, 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 Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Shiyan 6?

At 5:37:10 PM UTC Shiyan 6 was over the Indian Ocean (43.3° S, 20.3° E), 484 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Shiyan 6?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 19, 2018.

Can I see Shiyan 6?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 6, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
China National Space Administration
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Shenzhen Hangtian DongFangHong HIT Weixing YG
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
about 1 t
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, 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
5:37 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:37 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
43.3° S, 20.3° E
Altitude
484 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,450 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.1 minutes
Orbits per day
15.31
This orbit
462 to 479 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:49 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:49 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 6, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Shiyan 6 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:49 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 6 (SY-6)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-094B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:49:39.036576",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.30812203,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00124603,
  "INCLINATION": 97.356,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 325.1243,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 5.5912,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 354.5466,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43711,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 44352,
  "BSTAR": 0.00024147761,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0000713,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}