Shiyan 23 Weixing

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/59728

  • Military
  • SHIYAN 23 (SY-23)
  • NORAD 59728
  • 2024-089A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Shiyan 23 Weixing is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Greenland

Orbit ends over Greenland

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Shiyan 23 Weixing 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 23 Weixing, 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 Spain LIVE

Where is Shiyan 23 Weixing?

At 5:40:17 PM UTC Shiyan 23 Weixing was over Spain (37.1° N, 7.3° W), 609 km up, moving at 7.56 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Shiyan 23 Weixing?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 11, 2024.

Can I see Shiyan 23 Weixing?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 23 Weixing, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
China National Space Administration
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
about 1 t
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
5:40 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:40 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
37.1° N, 7.3° W
Altitude
609 km
Speed
7.56 km/s (27,216 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
97.8°
Orbital period
96.8 minutes
Orbits per day
14.87
This orbit
600 to 608 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,780 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 5:16 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 5:16 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 23 Weixing, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Shiyan 23 Weixing 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

Shiyan 23 Weixing shares its launch, 2024-089, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
CZ-4C 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 7, 2026, 5:16 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 23 (SY-23)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-089A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T17:16:56.112096",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.87182119,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0005403,
  "INCLINATION": 97.7827,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 310.6202,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 85.2131,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 274.9702,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 59728,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 13517,
  "BSTAR": 0.000059404,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000481,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}