- OBJECT C
- NORAD 44881
- 2019-093C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Mozambique Channel
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches TQ-OSCAR-108 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 TQ-OSCAR-108, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Barents Sea LIVE
Where is TQ-OSCAR-108?
At 6:32:13 PM UTC TQ-OSCAR-108 was over the Barents Sea (75.6° N, 23.6° E), 623 km up, moving at 7.55 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is TQ-OSCAR-108?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 20, 2019.
Can I see TQ-OSCAR-108?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for TQ-OSCAR-108, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Sun Yat-sen University
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shenzhen Hangtian DongFangHong HIT Weixing YG
- Launched
- Mass
- 35 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
- 6:32 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:32 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 75.6° N, 23.6° E
- Altitude
- 623 km
- Speed
- 7.55 km/s (27,191 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:32 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- Orbital period
- 96.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.87
- This orbit
- 596 to 614 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,800 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:29 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:29 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for TQ-OSCAR-108, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to TQ-OSCAR-108 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.
Launched with
TQ-OSCAR-108 shares its launch, 2019-093, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OBJECT A | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT B | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT D | Communications satellite |
| CBERS 4A | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT F | Communications satellite |
| OBJECT G | Satellite |
| OBJECT H | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT J | Satellite |
| OBJECT L | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT M | Satellite |
| OBJECT N | Satellite |
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 8, 2026, 8:29 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT C",
"OBJECT_ID": "2019-093C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:29:49.964064",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.86697437,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00129179,
"INCLINATION": 97.7396,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 20.9633,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 338.8007,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 21.2672,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 44881,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 37283,
"BSTAR": 0.00012801719,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001086,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}