- CHUANG XIN 16A (CX-16A)
- NORAD 53586
- 2022-102A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Mexico
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Chuangxin-16A 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 Chuangxin-16A, 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 Indonesia LIVE
Where is Chuangxin-16A?
At 6:45:50 PM UTC Chuangxin-16A was over Indonesia (4.5° S, 121.8° E), 548 km up, moving at 7.59 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Chuangxin-16A?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 23, 2022.
Can I see Chuangxin-16A?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Chuangxin-16A, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Institute of Microsatellite Innovation, CAS
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Institute of Microsatellite Innovation, CAS
- Launched
- Mass
- 100 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
- 6:45 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:45 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 4.5° S, 121.8° E
- Altitude
- 548 km
- Speed
- 7.59 km/s (27,324 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:52 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 29°
- Orbital period
- 95.6 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.06
- This orbit
- 548 to 555 km
- In shadow
- 32 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,660 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 8:32 PM, 22 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:32 PM, 22 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Chuangxin-16A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Chuangxin-16A 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
Chuangxin-16A shares its launch, 2022-102, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| CHUANG XIN 16B (CX-16B) | 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 7, 2026, 8:32 PM, 22 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "CHUANG XIN 16A (CX-16A)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-102A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:32:31.831872",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.06323688,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0004956,
"INCLINATION": 28.9943,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 105.3829,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 89.0222,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 271.0945,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 53586,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 23120,
"BSTAR": 0.00013722,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00002226,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}