- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- YUNHAI 2-2B
- NORAD 59281
- 2024-052B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Coral Sea
Orbit ends over Australia
In view from you
Nobody watches Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing 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 Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing?
At 5:36:22 PM UTC Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing was over the Pacific Ocean (19.1° N, 165.3° W), 796 km up, moving at 7.46 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing?
A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 21, 2024.
Can I see Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corp
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shenzhen Hangtian DongFangHong HIT Weixing YG
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 100 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, 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
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:36 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 19.1° N, 165.3° W
- Altitude
- 796 km
- Speed
- 7.46 km/s (26,856 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 50°
- Orbital period
- 100.8 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 14.28
- This orbit
- 796 to 802 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,100 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 5:43 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 5:43 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing 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
Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing shares its launch, 2024-052, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| YUNHAI 2-2A | Earth-watching satellite |
| YUNHAI 2-2C | Earth-watching satellite |
| YUNHAI 2-2D | Earth-watching satellite |
| YUNHAI 2-2E | Earth-watching satellite |
| YUNHAI 2-2F | Earth-watching 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yunhai-2 02 zu 02 xing | 796 to 802 km | 101 minutes | 100 kg | 2024 |
| Sentinel-3A | 802 to 804 km | 101 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2016 |
| Sentinel-3B | 802 to 804 km | 101 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2018 |
| Sentinel-2A | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2015 |
| Sentinel-2B | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2017 |
| Sentinel-2C | 788 to 790 km | 101 minutes | about 1.1 t | 2024 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 5:43 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "YUNHAI 2-2B",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-052B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T05:43:56.609760",
"MEAN_MOTION": 14.28015783,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00046006,
"INCLINATION": 50.0083,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 132.0312,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 337.7172,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 22.3543,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 59281,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 13719,
"BSTAR": 0.000092623463,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 7e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}