- SHIYAN 19 (SY-19)
- NORAD 55861
- 2023-034A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Uzbekistan
Orbit ends over the Black Sea
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Shiyan 19 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 19, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Shiyan 19?
At 5:41:03 PM UTC Shiyan 19 was over the Pacific Ocean (31.4° N, 142.8° W), 370 km up, moving at 7.69 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Shiyan 19?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 15, 2023.
Can I see Shiyan 19?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 19, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Inst. of Satellite Engineering (509 Res.Inst.)
- Launched
- Mass
- 100 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 5:41 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:41 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 31.4° N, 142.8° W
- Altitude
- 370 km
- Speed
- 7.69 km/s (27,684 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:54 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 91.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.68
- This orbit
- 359 to 366 km
- In shadow
- 32 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,270 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:49 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:49 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 19, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shiyan 19 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:49 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 19 (SY-19)",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-034A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:49:37.065792",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.67649172,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00047041,
"INCLINATION": 97.3659,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 174.3906,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 139.5292,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 220.6319,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 55861,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 20503,
"BSTAR": 0.0013443308,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0014886,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}