- Navigation satellite
- Military
- NORAD 44204
- 2019-023A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1 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 3 IGSO-1, 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 Java Sea LIVE
Where is BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1?
At 4:10:00 AM UTC BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1 was over the Java Sea (3.5° S, 113.4° E), 35,702 km up, moving at 3.08 km/s and in sunlight.
What is BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1?
A BeiDou navigation satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Apr 20, 2019.
Can I see BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1 is one of the 37 navigation satellites of the BeiDou constellation. See every BeiDou satellite and how many are above you right now.
- Launched
- Known to its operator as
- C06
- Typical altitude
- 35,300 to 36,250 km
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:10 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:10 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 3.5° S, 113.4° E
- Altitude
- 35,702 km
- Speed
- 3.08 km/s (11,092 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 4:21 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 58.9°
- Orbital period
- 1,436.4 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,669 to 35,915 km
- In shadow
- 48 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,940 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Oct 31, 2026, 4:54 PM, 2 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Oct 31, 2026, 4:54 PM, 2 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 2, 2026, 1:53 PM, 14 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.
Beside the others
| Constellation | Satellites | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Planes | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BeiDou | 37 | 21,450 to 21,600 km | 773 minutes | — | The China Satellite Navigation Office |
| GPS | 32 | 20,000 to 20,400 km | 718 minutes | 6 | The United States Space Force |
| Galileo | 28 | 23,100 to 23,300 km | 845 minutes | — | EUSPA, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme |
| GLONASS | 24 | 19,050 to 19,200 km | 676 minutes | — | Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corporation |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Oct 31, 2026, 4:54 PM, 2 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "BEIDOU 3 IGSO-1",
"OBJECT_ID": "2019-023A",
"EPOCH": "2026-10-31T16:54:28.883808",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00251517,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00291597,
"INCLINATION": 58.8854,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 36.2553,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 226.4746,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 146.698,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 44204,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 858,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000223,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}