Xiguang 1-04

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/61895

  • Earth-watching satellite
  • OBJECT B
  • NORAD 61895
  • 2024-205B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Xiguang 1-04 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

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Xiguang 1-04 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 Xiguang 1-04, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Canada LIVE

Where is Xiguang 1-04?

At 6:20:10 PM UTC Xiguang 1-04 was over Canada (57.4° N, 100.9° W), 478 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Xiguang 1-04?

A satellite that watches the Earth in low Earth orbit, in space since Nov 11, 2024.

Can I see Xiguang 1-04?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Xiguang 1-04, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.

General

Operator
CAS Satellite Tech. Group Co. Ltd.
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics
What it is
Earth-watching satellite
Launched
Mass
75 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
6:20 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:20 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
57.4° N, 100.9° W
Altitude
478 km
Speed
7.63 km/s (27,472 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 7:08 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
93.9 minutes
Orbits per day
15.33
This orbit
457 to 468 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,520 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 6:50 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:50 AM, 11 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Xiguang 1-04, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Xiguang 1-04 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

Xiguang 1-04 shares its launch, 2024-205, with 14 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT AEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT CEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT DEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT EEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT FEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT GEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT HEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT JEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT KSatellite
OBJECT LEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT MEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT NEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT PSatellite
OBJECT QSatellite

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
Xiguang 1-04457 to 468 km94 minutes75 kg2024
PAZ507 to 510 km95 minutesabout 1.4 t2018
WorldView-3612 to 615 km97 minutesabout 2.8 t2014
SAOCOM 1A622 to 624 km97 minutesabout 3 t2018
ALOS-2630 to 632 km97 minutesabout 2.1 t2014
SMAP681 to 683 km98 minutes944 kg2015

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 6:50 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT B",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-205B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:50:30.361632",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.33312724,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00080332,
  "INCLINATION": 97.4038,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 29.9305,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 234.5025,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 125.5469,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 61895,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 11074,
  "BSTAR": 0.00069729481,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00022429,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}