- OBJECT E
- NORAD 64052
- 2025-103E
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Kazakhstan
Orbit ends over Kazakhstan
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Beiyou-2 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 Beiyou-2, 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 Antarctica LIVE
Where is Beiyou-2?
At 5:33:45 PM UTC Beiyou-2 was over Antarctica (70.4° S, 92.8° E), 513 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Beiyou-2?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 17, 2025.
Can I see Beiyou-2?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Beiyou-2, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Changsha Research Inst. Space Instrument Tech. Co. Ltd.
- 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
- 5:33 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:33 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 70.4° S, 92.8° E
- Altitude
- 513 km
- Speed
- 7.61 km/s (27,378 km/h)
- Course
- north-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 5:39 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 94.3 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.27
- This orbit
- 481 to 485 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,590 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 6:51 AM, 10 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 6:51 AM, 10 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Beiyou-2, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Beiyou-2 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
Beiyou-2 shares its launch, 2025-103, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| OBJECT A | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT B | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT C | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT D | Earth-watching satellite |
| OBJECT F | 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, 6:51 AM, 10 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT E",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-103E",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T06:51:52.062336",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.26617606,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00034654,
"INCLINATION": 97.3609,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 22.5049,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 49.325,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 310.8289,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 64052,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 8207,
"BSTAR": 0.0008162501,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00021352,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}