- Military
- SHIYAN 9 (SY-9)
- NORAD 47851
- 2021-019A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Shiyan 9 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 9, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Shiyan 9?
At 4:57:41 PM UTC Shiyan 9 was over the Pacific Ocean (8.3° N, 148° E), 35,822 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Shiyan 9?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Mar 11, 2021.
Can I see Shiyan 9?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 9, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
- 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 5 t
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
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
- 4:57 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:57 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 8.3° N, 148° E
- Altitude
- 35,822 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,059 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 1:18 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 16.2°
- Orbital period
- 1,436 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,717 to 35,856 km
- In shadow
- 69 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,940 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:31 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:31 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 9, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shiyan 9 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:31 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 9 (SY-9)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2021-019A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:31:41.772864",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.0027524,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00163814,
"INCLINATION": 16.2147,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 300.572,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 25.3763,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 326.3033,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 47851,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2557,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00000238,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}