Mengtian

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/54216

  • CSS (MENGTIAN)
  • NORAD 54216
  • 2022-143A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Mengtian is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

Back in sunlight

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Mengtian 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 Mengtian, 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 Madagascar LIVE

Where is Mengtian?

At 6:48:45 PM UTC Mengtian was over Madagascar (24.9° S, 44.8° E), 388 km up, moving at 7.68 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Mengtian?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 31, 2022.

Can I see Mengtian?

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

General

Operator
China Manned Space Engineering Office
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
Launched
Mass
about 23 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:48 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:48 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
24.9° S, 44.8° E
Altitude
388 km
Speed
7.68 km/s (27,644 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 7:04 PM UTC
Inclination
41.5°
Orbital period
92.2 minutes
Orbits per day
15.62
This orbit
382 to 389 km
In shadow
30 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,310 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 12:59 AM, 17 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 12:59 AM, 17 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Mengtian 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 12:59 AM, 17 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "CSS (MENGTIAN)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-143A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T00:59:36.368160",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.61535765,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00045999,
  "INCLINATION": 41.4675,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 167.8975,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 274.9283,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 85.1031,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 54216,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 30857,
  "BSTAR": 0.00030309447,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00026503,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}