- OBJECT M
- NORAD 63993
- 2025-100M
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the United States of America
Orbit ends over the United States of America
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Dalinghaowan 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 Dalinghaowan, 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
- Close approach
On Friday, Oct 16 at 10:16 PM UTC, a fragment of Cosmos 252 (NORAD 3549) was to pass within 96 m of Object M (NORAD 63993). The chance was about 1 in 100.
Summary
Over Canada LIVE
Where is Dalinghaowan?
At 6:04:57 PM UTC Dalinghaowan was over Canada (59.2° N, 98.5° W), 482 km up, moving at 7.63 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Dalinghaowan?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 14, 2025.
Can I see Dalinghaowan?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Dalinghaowan, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- ADA Space (Guoxing Aerospace Tech Co.)
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- ADA Space (Guoxing Aerospace Tech Co.)
- Launched
- Mass
- 50 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, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.
Latest orbital data
- Position received
- 6:04 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:04 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 59.2° N, 98.5° W
- Altitude
- 482 km
- Speed
- 7.63 km/s (27,479 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:54 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 94.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.3
- This orbit
- 468 to 477 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, 6:34 AM, 11 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:34 AM, 11 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Dalinghaowan, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- 1 reported. No close approach to Dalinghaowan is reported for the next three 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
Dalinghaowan shares its launch, 2025-100, with 11 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OBJECT A | Satellite |
| OBJECT B | Satellite |
| OBJECT C | Satellite |
| OBJECT D | Satellite |
| OBJECT E | Satellite |
| OBJECT F | Satellite |
| OBJECT G | Satellite |
| OBJECT H | Satellite |
| OBJECT J | Satellite |
| OBJECT K | Satellite |
| OBJECT L | 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, 6:34 AM, 11 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT M",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-100M",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:34:23.051424",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.30118359,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00064024,
"INCLINATION": 97.3549,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 27.755,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 149.5022,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 210.6592,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 63993,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 8291,
"BSTAR": 0.0013489962,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00039426,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}