Yaogan 43-01-03

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/60460

  • Communications satellite
  • Military
  • YAOGAN-43 O1C
  • NORAD 60460
  • 2024-148C
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Yaogan 43-01-03 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the People's Republic of China

Orbit ends over Afghanistan

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Yaogan 43-01-03 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 Yaogan 43-01-03, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Philippine Sea LIVE

Where is Yaogan 43-01-03?

At 6:45:34 PM UTC Yaogan 43-01-03 was over the Philippine Sea (27.8° N, 135.4° E), 494 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Yaogan 43-01-03?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 16, 2024.

Can I see Yaogan 43-01-03?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yaogan 43-01-03, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
General Armaments Dept. of the PLA
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
What it is
Communications satellite
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
300 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
6:45 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:45 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
27.8° N, 135.4° E
Altitude
494 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,446 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 6:48 PM UTC
Inclination
35°
Orbital period
94.6 minutes
Orbits per day
15.23
This orbit
497 to 504 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,550 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:46 AM, 9 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:46 AM, 9 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yaogan 43-01-03, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Yaogan 43-01-03 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

Yaogan 43-01-03 shares its launch, 2024-148, with 8 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
YAOGAN-43 O1ACommunications satellite
YAOGAN-43 O1BCommunications satellite
YAOGAN-43 O1DCommunications satellite
YAOGAN-43 O1ECommunications satellite
YAOGAN-43 O1FCommunications satellite
YAOGAN-43 O1GCommunications satellite
YAOGAN-43 O1HCommunications satellite
YAOGAN-43 O1JCommunications 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

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Yaogan 43-01-03497 to 504 km95 minutes300 kg2024
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 8:46 AM, 9 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "YAOGAN-43 O1C",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-148C",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:46:09.256224",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.22823054,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00051177,
  "INCLINATION": 34.9998,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 335.7723,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 78.12,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 282.0089,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 60460,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 12413,
  "BSTAR": 0.00050985582,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00012205,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}