WHDW 09-04

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/65231

  • Communications satellite
  • HULIANWANG DIGUI-71
  • NORAD 65231
  • 2025-178D
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where WHDW 09-04 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

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches WHDW 09-04 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 WHDW 09-04, 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 for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Russia LIVE

Where is WHDW 09-04?

At 9:15:50 PM UTC WHDW 09-04 was over Russia (46.7° N, 134° E), 1,174 km up, moving at 7.27 km/s and in sunlight.

What is WHDW 09-04?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 17, 2025.

Can I see WHDW 09-04?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for WHDW 09-04, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
China Satellite Network Group Co. Ltd.
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
800 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, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
9:15 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
9:15 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
46.7° N, 134° E
Altitude
1,174 km
Speed
7.27 km/s (26,176 km/h)
Course
south
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
86.5°
Orbital period
108.7 minutes
Orbits per day
13.24
This orbit
1,164 to 1,167 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 2,640 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 7:54 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:54 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for WHDW 09-04, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to WHDW 09-04 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

WHDW 09-04 shares its launch, 2025-178, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
HULIANWANG DIGUI-68Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI-69Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI-70Communications satellite
HULIANWANG DIGUI-72Communications satellite
CZ-6A R/BRocket body

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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
WHDW 09-041,164 to 1,167 km109 minutes800 kg2025
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 7:54 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HULIANWANG DIGUI-71",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-178D",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:54:06.043104",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.24415708,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00019958,
  "INCLINATION": 86.4977,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 324.9609,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 95.0392,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 265.097,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 65231,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 5939,
  "BSTAR": -0.00000469507,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1.3e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}