- Communications satellite
- ZHIHUI TIANWANG-1 01B
- NORAD 59706
- 2024-087B
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Brazil
Orbit ends over the Timor Sea
In view from you
Nobody watches Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B 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 Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B, 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 reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Caspian Sea LIVE
Where is Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B?
At 7:08:19 AM UTC Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B was over the Caspian Sea (41.6° N, 50.7° E), 20,247 km up, moving at 3.87 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B?
A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since May 9, 2024.
Can I see Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Tsing Shen
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- about 2 t
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 7:08 AM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 7:08 AM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 41.6° N, 50.7° E
- Altitude
- 20,247 km
- Speed
- 3.87 km/s (13,918 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 53.1°
- Orbital period
- 718 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 2.01
- This orbit
- 20,107 to 20,258 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,380 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Oct 29, 2026, 6:00 AM, 11 days old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Oct 29, 2026, 6:00 AM, 11 days old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B 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.
Launched with
Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B shares its launch, 2024-087, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| ZHIHUI TIANWANG-1 01A | Communications 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhihui Tianwang 1-01B | 20,107 to 20,258 km | 718 minutes | about 2 t | 2024 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
| Hotbird 13F | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.5 t | 2022 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Oct 29, 2026, 6:00 AM, 11 days old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "ZHIHUI TIANWANG-1 01B",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-087B",
"EPOCH": "2026-10-29T06:00:54.081216",
"MEAN_MOTION": 2.00560186,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00283566,
"INCLINATION": 53.1282,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 165.0554,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 198.0271,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 161.9667,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 59706,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 1764,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 5.2e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}