- Military
- SHIJIAN 6 05B (SJ-6 05B)
- NORAD 49962
- 2021-122B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Shi Jian 6/5A 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 Shi Jian 6/5A, 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 Antarctica LIVE
Where is Shi Jian 6/5A?
At 5:39:25 PM UTC Shi Jian 6/5A was over Antarctica (70.7° S, 134.3° E), 554 km up, moving at 7.58 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Shi Jian 6/5A?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 10, 2021.
Can I see Shi Jian 6/5A?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shi Jian 6/5A, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corp
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 350 kg
- Operating
- Orbit class
- Low Earth orbit
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
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:39 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 70.7° S, 134.3° E
- Altitude
- 554 km
- Speed
- 7.58 km/s (27,302 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:41 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 95.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.12
- This orbit
- 524 to 527 km
- In shadow
- 16 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,670 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Oct 15, 2026, 5:47 PM, 23 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Oct 15, 2026, 5:47 PM, 23 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shi Jian 6/5A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shi Jian 6/5A 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
Shi Jian 6/5A shares its launch, 2021-122, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SHIJIAN 6 05A (SJ-6 05A) | 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 Oct 15, 2026, 5:47 PM, 23 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SHIJIAN 6 05B (SJ-6 05B)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2021-122B",
"EPOCH": "2026-10-15T17:47:29.636736",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.12490165,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0002031,
"INCLINATION": 97.3949,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 265.4471,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 48.5099,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 311.6306,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 49962,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 26796,
"BSTAR": 0.00017019,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00002899,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}