- Military
- TIANPING 3B-02
- NORAD 61616
- 2024-189C
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Greenland
Orbit ends over Baffin Bay
In view from you
Nobody watches Tianping-3B(02) 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 Tianping-3B(02), 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over Australia LIVE
Where is Tianping-3B(02)?
At 9:01:14 PM UTC Tianping-3B(02) was over Australia (18.1° S, 142.6° E), 572 km up, moving at 7.57 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Tianping-3B(02)?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Oct 22, 2024.
Can I see Tianping-3B(02)?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Tianping-3B(02), and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- ZJUNI-SAT
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- 200 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, 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
- 9:01 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 9:01 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 18.1° S, 142.6° E
- Altitude
- 572 km
- Speed
- 7.57 km/s (27,263 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- Orbital period
- 95.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.01
- This orbit
- 559 to 562 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,710 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 13 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 13 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tianping-3B(02), so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Tianping-3B(02) 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
Tianping-3B(02) shares its launch, 2024-189, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| TIANPING 3A-01 | Satellite |
| TIANPING 3B-01 | 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:20 AM, 13 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "TIANPING 3B-02",
"OBJECT_ID": "2024-189C",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:20:31.087968",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.01046245,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00026016,
"INCLINATION": 97.5055,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 327.8381,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 75.4005,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 284.7508,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 61616,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 11206,
"BSTAR": 0.00025521227,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00003204,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}