Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13

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  • Communications satellite
  • QIANFAN-31
  • NORAD 61564
  • 2024-185N
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

In the Earth’s shadow since

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In view from you

Nobody watches Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13 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 Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13, 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 Black Sea LIVE

Where is Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13?

At 9:57:33 PM UTC Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13 was over the Black Sea (40.8° N, 28.3° E), 1,049 km up, moving at 7.33 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.

What is Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 15, 2024.

Can I see Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology Ltd
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Shanghai GENESAT Space Tech Co Ltd.
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
267 kg
Operating
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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
9:57 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
9:57 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
40.8° N, 28.3° E
Altitude
1,049 km
Speed
7.33 km/s (26,392 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In the Earth’s shadow until 10:08 PM UTC
Inclination
89°
Orbital period
106 minutes
Orbits per day
13.58
This orbit
1,033 to 1,046 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,480 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 9, 2026, 2:41 PM, 7 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 9, 2026, 2:41 PM, 7 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 9, 2026, 1:50 PM, 2 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

Qianfan Xingzuo 02-13 shares its launch, 2024-185, with 18 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
QIANFAN-19Communications satellite
QIANFAN-20Communications satellite
QIANFAN-21Communications satellite
QIANFAN-22Communications satellite
QIANFAN-23Communications satellite
QIANFAN-24Communications satellite
QIANFAN-25Communications satellite
QIANFAN-26Communications satellite
QIANFAN-27Communications satellite
QIANFAN-28Communications satellite
QIANFAN-29Communications satellite
QIANFAN-30Communications satellite
QIANFAN-32Communications satellite
QIANFAN-33Communications satellite
QIANFAN-34Communications satellite
QIANFAN-35Communications satellite
QIANFAN-36Communications satellite
CZ-6A 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Qianfan Xingzuo 02-131,033 to 1,046 km106 minutes267 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 9, 2026, 2:41 PM, 7 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "QIANFAN-31",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-185N",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-09T14:41:12.717600",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.58070114,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00087619,
  "INCLINATION": 88.9877,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 45.9736,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 135.1718,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 225.0146,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 61564,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 11320,
  "BSTAR": 0.000027765762,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 3.2e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}