Taiji-1

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/44520

  • KX-09
  • NORAD 44520
  • 2019-058B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Taiji-1 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Taiji-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 Taiji-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 too faint to see with the naked eye from anywhere on Earth.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Greenland LIVE

Where is Taiji-1?

At 5:33:44 PM UTC Taiji-1 was over Greenland (81.9° N, 59.1° W), 594 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Taiji-1?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 30, 2019.

Can I see Taiji-1?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Taiji-1, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
National Space Science Center
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
National Space Science Center
Launched
Mass
100 kg
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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
5:33 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:33 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
81.9° N, 59.1° W
Altitude
594 km
Speed
7.57 km/s (27,245 km/h)
Course
west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
97.8°
Orbital period
96.2 minutes
Orbits per day
14.97
This orbit
567 to 580 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,750 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:32 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:32 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Taiji-1, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Taiji-1 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, 7:32 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "KX-09",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2019-058B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:32:45.667680",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.96942588,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00092559,
  "INCLINATION": 97.774,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 324.8154,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 215.7863,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 144.274,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 44520,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 39159,
  "BSTAR": 0.00014572601,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001616,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}