Shiyan 13

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  • Military
  • SHIYAN 13 (SY-13)
  • NORAD 51102
  • 2022-004A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Shiyan 13 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

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Shiyan 13 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 13, 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 the United States of America LIVE

Where is Shiyan 13?

At 5:39:21 PM UTC Shiyan 13 was over the United States of America (69.2° N, 142.7° W), 423 km up, moving at 7.88 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Shiyan 13?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 17, 2022.

Can I see Shiyan 13?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 13, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Chinese Academy of Sciences
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Institute of Microsatellite Innovation, CAS
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
500 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, 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
69.2° N, 142.7° W
Altitude
423 km
Speed
7.88 km/s (28,372 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.5°
Orbital period
101.3 minutes
Orbits per day
14.21
This orbit
385 to 1,253 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,400 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:01 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:01 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 13, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Shiyan 13 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.

Launched with

Shiyan 13 shares its launch, 2022-004, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
CZ-2D R/BRocket body

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, 7:01 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 13 (SY-13)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-004A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:01:10.642656",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.21027012,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.06026228,
  "INCLINATION": 98.4514,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 326.7716,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 130.2128,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 235.3414,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 51102,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 24775,
  "BSTAR": 0.0001870133,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00002794,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}