- Navigation satellite
- Military
- NORAD 58655
- 2023-207B
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches BEIDOU 3 M26 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 BEIDOU 3 M26, 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 far too high and too faint for the naked eye. What you notice of it is a position fix, and the card above says whether it is above your horizon to give you one.
Summary
Over the Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is BEIDOU 3 M26?
At 4:09:24 AM UTC BEIDOU 3 M26 was over the Atlantic Ocean (2.4° N, 45.6° W), 21,531 km up, moving at 3.78 km/s and in sunlight.
What is BEIDOU 3 M26?
A BeiDou navigation satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Dec 26, 2023.
Can I see BEIDOU 3 M26?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for BEIDOU 3 M26, and nothing here estimates one; receivers on the ground use its signals instead, whenever it is above their horizon.
General
BEIDOU 3 M26 is one of the 37 navigation satellites of the BeiDou constellation. See every BeiDou satellite and how many are above you right now.
- Launched
- Known to its operator as
- C12
- Typical altitude
- 21,450 to 21,600 km
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 4:09 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:09 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 2.4° N, 45.6° W
- Altitude
- 21,531 km
- Speed
- 3.78 km/s (13,604 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 55.9°
- Orbital period
- 773.2 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1.86
- This orbit
- 21,521 to 21,535 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,450 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Oct 30, 2026, 10:43 PM, 3 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Oct 30, 2026, 10:43 PM, 3 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for BEIDOU 3 M26, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to BEIDOU 3 M26 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.
From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 2, 2026, 1:53 PM, 14 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.
Beside the others
| Constellation | Satellites | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Planes | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BeiDou | 37 | 21,450 to 21,600 km | 773 minutes | — | The China Satellite Navigation Office |
| GPS | 32 | 20,000 to 20,400 km | 718 minutes | 6 | The United States Space Force |
| Galileo | 28 | 23,100 to 23,300 km | 845 minutes | — | EUSPA, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme |
| GLONASS | 24 | 19,050 to 19,200 km | 676 minutes | — | Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corporation |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Oct 30, 2026, 10:43 PM, 3 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "BEIDOU 3 M26",
"OBJECT_ID": "2023-207B",
"EPOCH": "2026-10-30T22:43:51.517056",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.86229252,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00025797,
"INCLINATION": 55.8803,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 57.7209,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 249.1289,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 110.8414,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 58655,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 1935,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -2.7e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}