- Earth-watching satellite
- LT-1 01A
- NORAD 51284
- 2022-007A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Greenland
Orbit ends over Greenland
In view from you
Nobody watches Ludi Tance 1-01A 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 Ludi Tance 1-01A, 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 for the naked eye. What it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Southern Ocean LIVE
Where is Ludi Tance 1-01A?
At 4:57:54 PM UTC Ludi Tance 1-01A was over the Southern Ocean (63.8° S, 31.8° E), 628 km up, moving at 7.54 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Ludi Tance 1-01A?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Jan 25, 2022.
Can I see Ludi Tance 1-01A?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Ludi Tance 1-01A, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 3.2 t
- 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, what it is for, 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
- 63.8° S, 31.8° E
- Altitude
- 628 km
- Speed
- 7.54 km/s (27,155 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Orbital period
- 96.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.88
- This orbit
- 599 to 601 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,810 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:34 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:34 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Ludi Tance 1-01A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Ludi Tance 1-01A 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludi Tance 1-01A | 599 to 601 km | 97 minutes | about 3.2 t | 2022 |
| WorldView-3 | 612 to 615 km | 97 minutes | about 2.8 t | 2014 |
| SAOCOM 1A | 622 to 624 km | 97 minutes | about 3 t | 2018 |
| ALOS-2 | 630 to 632 km | 97 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2014 |
| SMAP | 681 to 683 km | 98 minutes | 944 kg | 2015 |
| Aqua | 685 to 687 km | 98 minutes | about 2.9 t | 2002 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:34 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "LT-1 01A",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-007A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:34:30.480384",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.88421524,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00014067,
"INCLINATION": 97.8099,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 317.6838,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 86.4826,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 273.6552,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 51284,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 25991,
"BSTAR": 0.000081087835,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000697,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}