Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3

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  • Military
  • TJS-3
  • NORAD 43874
  • 2018-110A
  • Geostationary

Current orbit

Where Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 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 Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 keeps above 175.4° E of the equator and never crosses the sky.

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It never rises or sets

Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 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 Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3, 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

  2. Rendezvous

    USA 271 came up beside Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3, from May 6, 2021, as public sources state. Its sources

  3. Rendezvous

    Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 came up beside WGS SV-4, from Sep 13, 2022, as public sources state. Its sources

  4. Rendezvous

    Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 came up beside WGS SV-10, from Feb 8, 2023, as public sources state. Its sources

  5. Rendezvous

    Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 10 came up beside Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3, Nov 9, 2023 to Nov 12, 2024, as public sources state. Its sources

  6. Rendezvous

    Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 came up beside Gao Fen 13-02, from May 13, 2026, as public sources state. Its sources

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3?

At 5:35:35 PM UTC Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 was over the Pacific Ocean (2.2° N, 175.4° E), 35,780 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.

What is Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3?

A satellite in geostationary orbit, in space since Dec 24, 2018.

Can I see Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3?

No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 stands over 175.4° E of the equator.

General

Operator
China Aerospace Corp
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
about 2.7 t
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Geostationary

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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
2.2° N, 175.4° E
Altitude
35,780 km
Speed
3.08 km/s (11,070 km/h)
Course
Stands over 175.4° E
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
2.9°
Orbital period
1,436.1 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,780 to 35,795 km
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 7:07 PM, 22 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 7:07 PM, 22 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 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

Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 3 shares its launch, 2018-110, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
CZ-3C R/BRocket body
TJS-3 AKMRocket body

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 7, 2026, 7:07 PM, 22 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "TJS-3",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2018-110A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T19:07:30.105408",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.0027221,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001813,
  "INCLINATION": 2.9099,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 78.6353,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 3.084,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 67.6196,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 43874,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 2886,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 2.7e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}