- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- YAOGAN-45
- NORAD 65563
- 2025-202A
- Medium Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Caribbean Sea
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Yaogan 45 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 Yaogan 45, 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 it is up there for reaches the ground as pictures and measurements, not as a light in the sky.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Yaogan 45?
At 4:54:25 PM UTC Yaogan 45 was over the Indian Ocean (19.4° S, 111.6° E), 7,507 km up, moving at 5.36 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Yaogan 45?
A satellite that watches the Earth in medium Earth orbit, in space since Sep 9, 2025.
Can I see Yaogan 45?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Yaogan 45, and nothing here estimates one; what people use is its pictures and measurements of the Earth.
General
- Operator
- Strategic Support Troops
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
- What it is
- Earth-watching satellite
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 5 t
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Medium Earth orbit
From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, 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
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 4:54 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 19.4° S, 111.6° E
- Altitude
- 7,507 km
- Speed
- 5.36 km/s (19,285 km/h)
- Course
- east
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 19.9°
- Orbital period
- 271.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 5.31
- This orbit
- 7,489 to 7,509 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 5,910 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:18 AM, 12 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:18 AM, 12 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Yaogan 45, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Yaogan 45 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yaogan 45 | 7,489 to 7,509 km | 271 minutes | about 5 t | 2025 |
| Sentinel-6MF | 1,332 to 1,344 km | 112 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2020 |
| Sentinel-6B | 1,332 to 1,344 km | 112 minutes | about 1.2 t | 2025 |
| Sentinel-5P | 826 to 828 km | 101 minutes | 820 kg | 2017 |
| Suomi NPP | 825 to 829 km | 101 minutes | about 2.1 t | 2011 |
| MetOp-SG A1 | 820 to 821 km | 101 minutes | about 4 t | 2025 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:18 AM, 12 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "YAOGAN-45",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-202A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:18:56.485152",
"MEAN_MOTION": 5.31205308,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00070741,
"INCLINATION": 19.9449,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 128.6216,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 60.2938,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 299.809,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 65563,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 1974,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -5e-8,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}