Xingyun Jiaotong VDES

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/54588

  • Communications satellite
  • JIAOTONG VDES
  • NORAD 54588
  • 2022-164A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Xingyun Jiaotong VDES is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Southern Ocean

Orbit ends over the Southern Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Xingyun Jiaotong VDES 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 Xingyun Jiaotong VDES, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Caribbean Sea LIVE

Where is Xingyun Jiaotong VDES?

At 11:52:19 AM UTC Xingyun Jiaotong VDES was over the Caribbean Sea (8.7° N, 76.9° W), 738 km up, moving at 7.49 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Xingyun Jiaotong VDES?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 7, 2022.

Can I see Xingyun Jiaotong VDES?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Xingyun Jiaotong VDES, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Xingyun Company
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Sanjiang Space Group (CASIC 9th Acad)
What it is
Communications satellite
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, 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
11:52 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
11:52 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
8.7° N, 76.9° W
Altitude
738 km
Speed
7.49 km/s (26,953 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
98.2°
Orbital period
99.6 minutes
Orbits per day
14.46
This orbit
729 to 742 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,010 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 11:27 PM, 12 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 11:27 PM, 12 hours old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Xingyun Jiaotong VDES has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 5:39 AM, 2 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Xingyun Jiaotong VDES729 to 742 km100 minutes500 kg2022
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 11:27 PM, 12 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "JIAOTONG VDES",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-164A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T23:27:31.146912",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.46151794,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00087642,
  "INCLINATION": 98.2371,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 328.1263,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 243.4074,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 116.6221,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 54588,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 20700,
  "BSTAR": 0.000094121886,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000294,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}