- Earth-watching satellite
- OBJECT H
- NORAD 54689
- 2022-167H
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Tianfu Dongpo 10 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 Tianfu Dongpo 10, 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 Arctic Ocean LIVE
Where is Tianfu Dongpo 10?
At 5:37:12 PM UTC Tianfu Dongpo 10 was over the Arctic Ocean (75.5° N, 145.8° E), 468 km up, moving at 7.64 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Tianfu Dongpo 10?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 9, 2022.
Can I see Tianfu Dongpo 10?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Tianfu Dongpo 10, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Chang Guang Satellite Technology Ltd
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Chang Guang Satellite Technology Ltd
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 42 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
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:37 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 75.5° N, 145.8° E
- Altitude
- 468 km
- Speed
- 7.64 km/s (27,497 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 5:46 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- Orbital period
- 93.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.37
- This orbit
- 449 to 455 km
- In shadow
- 17 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,500 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:54 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:54 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tianfu Dongpo 10, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Tianfu Dongpo 10 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
Tianfu Dongpo 10 shares its launch, 2022-167, with 6 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OBJECT D | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT E | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT J | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT L | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT N | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT P | Earth-watching 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tianfu Dongpo 10 | 449 to 455 km | 94 minutes | 42 kg | 2022 |
| PAZ | 507 to 510 km | 95 minutes | about 1.4 t | 2018 |
| 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 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:54 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT H",
"OBJECT_ID": "2022-167H",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:54:32.338080",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.37002752,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00039268,
"INCLINATION": 97.6995,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 128.9615,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 335.023,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 25.0822,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 54689,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 21748,
"BSTAR": 0.00048983954,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00017668,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}