- OBJECT F
- NORAD 64053
- 2025-103F
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Kazakhstan
Orbit ends over Russia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches Beiyou-3 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-3, 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 the Northwest Passage LIVE
Where is Beiyou-3?
At 5:35:15 PM UTC Beiyou-3 was over the Northwest Passage (74.5° N, 83.2° W), 518 km up, moving at 7.61 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Beiyou-3?
A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since May 17, 2025.
Can I see Beiyou-3?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Beiyou-3, 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
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 74.5° N, 83.2° W
- Altitude
- 518 km
- Speed
- 7.61 km/s (27,403 km/h)
- Course
- south-west
- Light
- In sunlight until 6:29 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 94.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.2
- This orbit
- 501 to 506 km
- In shadow
- 34 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,600 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:39 AM, 9 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:39 AM, 9 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Beiyou-3, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Beiyou-3 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-3 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 E | 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, 7:39 AM, 9 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT F",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-103F",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:39:10.082016",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.19854965,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00039349,
"INCLINATION": 97.3673,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 20.4423,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 48.8353,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 311.3221,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 64053,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 8193,
"BSTAR": 0.00025513058,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00005406,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}