DRO-A

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/59228

  • NORAD 59228
  • 2024-048A
  • Highly elliptical orbit

Current orbit

Where DRO-A is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Australia

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches DRO-A 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 DRO-A, 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 Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is DRO-A?

At 5:37:13 PM UTC DRO-A was over the Pacific Ocean (15.5° S, 106.8° W), 324,995 km up, moving at 1.07 km/s and in sunlight.

What is DRO-A?

A satellite in a highly elliptical orbit, in space since Mar 13, 2024.

Can I see DRO-A?

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

General

Operator
China Aerospace Corp
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, SIMIT
Launched
Mass
400 kg
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Highly elliptical 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
5:37 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:37 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
15.5° S, 106.8° W
Altitude
324,995 km
Speed
1.07 km/s (3,863 km/h)
Course
west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
29.1°
Orbital period
29,714.6 minutes
Orbits per day
0.05
This orbit
196,102 to 426,721 km
In view from
Within 8,770 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 4, 2026, 10:23 AM, 4 days old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 4, 2026, 10:23 AM, 4 days old.

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

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to DRO-A 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

DRO-A shares its launch, 2024-048, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
DRO-BSatellite
YZ-1S R/BRocket body

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 Nov 4, 2026, 10:23 AM, 4 days old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "DRO-A",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-048A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-04T10:23:49.999776",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.04846108,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.36284756,
  "INCLINATION": 29.1287,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 355.2476,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 326.8876,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 209.8447,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 59228,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 18,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.00003717,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}