Honghu-2

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/58555

  • HONGHU 2
  • NORAD 58555
  • 2023-193C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Honghu-2 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Norway

Orbit ends over the Atlantic Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Honghu-2 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 Honghu-2, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE

Where is Honghu-2?

At 5:46:08 AM UTC Honghu-2 was over the Atlantic Ocean (34.5° S, 17.7° W), 495 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Honghu-2?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 8, 2023.

Can I see Honghu-2?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Honghu-2, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Shanghai Landspace Hongqing Technology Co., Ltd.
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Changsha Research Inst. Space Instrument Tech. Co. Ltd.
Launched
Mass
50 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
5:46 AM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:46 AM UTC
Latitude / longitude
34.5° S, 17.7° W
Altitude
495 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,414 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
97.3°
Orbital period
94.2 minutes
Orbits per day
15.29
This orbit
447 to 505 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,550 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:50 AM, 22 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:50 AM, 22 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Honghu-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Honghu-2 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 2:43 PM, 9 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:50 AM, 22 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HONGHU 2",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2023-193C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:50:41.962560",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.28796633,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00424847,
  "INCLINATION": 97.289,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 301.3342,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 123.0985,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 237.4345,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 58555,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12414,
  "BSTAR": 0.00029225917,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00008329,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}