Shiyan 20B

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/54700

  • Military
  • SHIYAN 20B (SY-20B)
  • NORAD 54700
  • 2022-169B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Shiyan 20B is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Shiyan 20B 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 Shiyan 20B, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Shiyan 20B?

At 5:40:24 PM UTC Shiyan 20B was over the Pacific Ocean (7.7° N, 174.2° E), 781 km up, moving at 7.47 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Shiyan 20B?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 12, 2022.

Can I see Shiyan 20B?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 20B, and nothing here estimates one.

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)
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
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, 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
5:40 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:40 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
7.7° N, 174.2° E
Altitude
781 km
Speed
7.47 km/s (26,896 km/h)
Course
north-east
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
60°
Orbital period
100.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.3
This orbit
779 to 806 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,080 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 5:52 AM, 11 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:52 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 20B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Shiyan 20B 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.

Launched with

Shiyan 20B shares its launch, 2022-169, with 4 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
SHIYAN 20A (SY-20A)Satellite
CZ-4C R/BRocket body
CZ-4C DEBDebris
SHIYAN 20A DEBDebris

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 8, 2026, 5:52 AM, 11 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 20B (SY-20B)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2022-169B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:52:57.165312",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.29578767,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00183861,
  "INCLINATION": 59.9951,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 124.4005,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 24.3674,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 335.8226,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 54700,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 20395,
  "BSTAR": 0.000048229434,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -1.3e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}