- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- YUNHAI 1-03
- NORAD 53877
- 2022-115A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Angola
Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Yunhai 1-03 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 Yunhai 1-03, 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 Tasman Sea LIVE
Where is Yunhai 1-03?
At 5:36:21 PM UTC Yunhai 1-03 was over the Tasman Sea (41.9° S, 169.4° E), 801 km up, moving at 7.45 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Yunhai 1-03?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 20, 2022.
Can I see Yunhai 1-03?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yunhai 1-03, 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
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 800 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, what it is for, 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
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 41.9° S, 169.4° E
- Altitude
- 801 km
- Speed
- 7.45 km/s (26,824 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 98.6°
- Orbital period
- 100.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.33
- This orbit
- 777 to 783 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,110 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:30 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:30 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yunhai 1-03, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Yunhai 1-03 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
Yunhai 1-03 shares its launch, 2022-115, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| CZ-2D R/B | Rocket 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yunhai 1-03 | 777 to 783 km | 100 minutes | 800 kg | 2022 |
| Sentinel-2A | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2015 |
| Sentinel-2B | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2017 |
| Sentinel-2C | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2024 |
| Envisat | 761 to 762 km | 100 minutes | about 8.1 t | 2002 |
| Sentinel-3A | 802 to 804 km | 101 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2016 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:30 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "YUNHAI 1-03",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-115A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:30:51.170112",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.32574431,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00040842,
"INCLINATION": 98.5627,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 308.6313,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 349.2083,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 10.9012,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 53877,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 21614,
"BSTAR": 0.00013546239,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000324,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}