- Military
- SHIYAN 24C 02
- NORAD 58651
- 2023-206B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over the Labrador Sea
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Shiyan 24C-02 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 24C-02, 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 Brazil LIVE
Where is Shiyan 24C-02?
At 5:38:59 PM UTC Shiyan 24C-02 was over Brazil (6.6° S, 36.3° W), 576 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Shiyan 24C-02?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Dec 25, 2023.
Can I see Shiyan 24C-02?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 24C-02, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corp
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, SIMIT
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 80 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
- 5:38 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:38 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 6.6° S, 36.3° W
- Altitude
- 576 km
- Speed
- 7.57 km/s (27,263 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:10 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.7°
- Orbital period
- 96.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.98
- This orbit
- 568 to 571 km
- In shadow
- 27 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,710 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Oct 15, 2026, 4:37 PM, 24 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Oct 15, 2026, 4:37 PM, 24 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 24C-02, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shiyan 24C-02 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
Shiyan 24C-02 shares its launch, 2023-206, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| SHIYAN 24C 01 | Satellite |
| SHIYAN 24C 03 | 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Oct 15, 2026, 4:37 PM, 24 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 24C 02",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-206B",
"EPOCH": "2026-10-15T16:37:39.743040",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.98154009,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.0002365,
"INCLINATION": 97.7436,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 251.6318,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 130.4758,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 229.6671,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 58651,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 15335,
"BSTAR": 0.00015375,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00001764,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}