- Military
- SHIYAN 29
- NORAD 65486
- 2025-196A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Indian Ocean
Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Shiyan 29 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 Shiyan 29, 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 Bay of Bengal LIVE
Where is Shiyan 29?
At 5:33:39 PM UTC Shiyan 29 was over the Bay of Bengal (14.1° N, 92.2° E), 35,843 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Shiyan 29?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Sep 5, 2025.
Can I see Shiyan 29?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Shiyan 29, and nothing here estimates one.
General
- Operator
- China National Space Administration
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Institute of Microsatellite Innovation, CAS
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 1.2 t
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Inclined geosynchronous
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
- 5:33 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 5:33 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 14.1° N, 92.2° E
- Altitude
- 35,843 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,056 km/h)
- Course
- north
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 6:12 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 29°
- Orbital period
- 1,436.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,724 to 35,851 km
- In shadow
- 67 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,950 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 4:43 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 4:43 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shiyan 29, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shiyan 29 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
Shiyan 29 shares its launch, 2025-196, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
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 7, 2026, 4:43 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SHIYAN 29",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-196A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T16:43:15.960864",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00270859,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00149756,
"INCLINATION": 28.9701,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 16.7298,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 184.333,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 192.2067,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 65486,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 432,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -0.0000028,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}