Yaogan 40-02-02

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  • Military
  • YAOGAN-40 02B
  • NORAD 63919
  • 2025-096B
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Yaogan 40-02-02 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Arctic Ocean

Orbit ends over the Arctic Ocean

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In view from you

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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 40-02-02, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Yaogan 40-02-02?

At 5:42:26 PM UTC Yaogan 40-02-02 was over the Pacific Ocean (48.3° N, 174.1° E), 857 km up, moving at 7.43 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Yaogan 40-02-02?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 11, 2025.

Can I see Yaogan 40-02-02?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yaogan 40-02-02, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Spaceflight East Is Red Satellite Co
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
500 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
5:42 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:42 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
48.3° N, 174.1° E
Altitude
857 km
Speed
7.43 km/s (26,744 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
86°
Orbital period
101.9 minutes
Orbits per day
14.12
This orbit
846 to 850 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,200 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:16 AM, 10 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:16 AM, 10 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yaogan 40-02-02, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Yaogan 40-02-02 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.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Yaogan 40-02-02 shares its launch, 2025-096, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
YAOGAN-40 02ASatellite
YAOGAN-40 02CSatellite
CZ-6A R/BRocket body
CZ-6A R/BRocket body
CZ-6A DEBDebris

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, 7:16 AM, 10 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "YAOGAN-40 02B",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-096B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:16:42.055392",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.12471484,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00021752,
  "INCLINATION": 85.9905,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 123.3736,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 87.901,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 272.2422,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 63919,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 7691,
  "BSTAR": 0.000089451705,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000184,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}