- Communications satellite
- TIANQI 22
- NORAD 57793
- 2023-135B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Sargasso Sea
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18 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 Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18?
At 7:35:51 PM UTC Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18 was over the Pacific Ocean (38.6° S, 119.9° W), 828 km up, moving at 7.44 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 5, 2023.
Can I see Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Guodian HiTech Technology Co Ltd.
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai ASES Spaceflight Technology Co. Ltd.
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 40 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
- 7:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 38.6° S, 119.9° W
- Altitude
- 828 km
- Speed
- 7.44 km/s (26,777 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight until 8:13 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 50°
- Orbital period
- 101.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.23
- This orbit
- 806 to 824 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,150 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 8:03 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:03 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18 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
Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18 shares its launch, 2023-135, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| TIANQI 21 | Communications satellite |
| TIANQI 23 | Communications satellite |
| TIANQI 24 | Communications 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tianqi Xingzuo 1-18 | 806 to 824 km | 101 minutes | 40 kg | 2023 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:03 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "TIANQI 22",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-135B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:03:18.231552",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.23187935,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00122961,
"INCLINATION": 49.9685,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 265.8624,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 43.3324,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 316.8553,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 57793,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 16515,
"BSTAR": 0.00026598387,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000446,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}