Shiyan 26B

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/61908

  • Military
  • OBJECT Q
  • NORAD 61908
  • 2024-205Q
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Shiyan 26B is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Antarctica

Orbit ends over Antarctica

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

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In view from you

Nobody watches Shiyan 26B 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 26B, 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 the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Shiyan 26B?

At 5:35:11 PM UTC Shiyan 26B was over the Pacific Ocean (20.5° S, 112.3° W), 516 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Shiyan 26B?

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

Can I see Shiyan 26B?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 26B, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
China Aerospace Corp
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, SIMIT
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
100 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
20.5° S, 112.3° W
Altitude
516 km
Speed
7.61 km/s (27,382 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight until 6:03 PM UTC
Inclination
97.4°
Orbital period
94.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.19
This orbit
500 to 514 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,600 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 8:47 AM, 8 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 8:47 AM, 8 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 26B, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Shiyan 26B 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 26B shares its launch, 2024-205, with 14 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
OBJECT AEarth-watching satellite
OBJECT BEarth-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

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, 8:47 AM, 8 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT Q",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2024-205Q",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T08:47:55.573152",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.18638267,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00099719,
  "INCLINATION": 97.3997,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 21.8053,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 275.6526,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 84.3571,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 61908,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 11020,
  "BSTAR": 0.0004266657,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00008783,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}