- Communications satellite
- HULIANWANG DIGUI-85
- NORAD 65820
- 2025-220D
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Russia
Orbit ends over Russia
Sunlit since
Enters the Earth’s shadow
In view from you
Nobody watches WHDW 11-04 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 11-04, 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
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is WHDW 11-04?
At 10:35:05 PM UTC WHDW 11-04 was over the Indian Ocean (53° S, 152.8° E), 1,189 km up, moving at 7.26 km/s and in sunlight.
What is WHDW 11-04?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Sep 27, 2025.
Can I see WHDW 11-04?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for WHDW 11-04, 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
- Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, SIMIT
- 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
- 10:35 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 10:35 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 53° S, 152.8° E
- Altitude
- 1,189 km
- Speed
- 7.26 km/s (26,129 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight until 11:09 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 86.5°
- Orbital period
- 108.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 13.24
- This orbit
- 1,164 to 1,166 km
- In shadow
- 25 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 2,660 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 8:01 PM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:01 PM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for WHDW 11-04, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to WHDW 11-04 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.
Launched with
WHDW 11-04 shares its launch, 2025-220, with 5 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| HULIANWANG DIGUI-82 | Communications satellite |
| HULIANWANG DIGUI-83 | Communications satellite |
| HULIANWANG DIGUI-84 | Communications satellite |
| HULIANWANG DIGUI-86 | Communications satellite |
| CZ-6A R/B | Rocket 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
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHDW 11-04 | 1,164 to 1,166 km | 109 minutes | 800 kg | 2025 |
| BlueWalker 3 | 443 to 453 km | 94 minutes | about 1.5 t | 2022 |
| Hispasat 30W-6 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 6.1 t | 2018 |
| Amazonas Nexus | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 4.1 t | 2023 |
| ARSAT-1 | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 3 t | 2014 |
| Astra 1N | 35,786 to 35,786 km | 1,436 minutes | about 5.3 t | 2011 |
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 8:01 PM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "HULIANWANG DIGUI-85",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-220D",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:01:42.048480",
"MEAN_MOTION": 13.24413502,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00017759,
"INCLINATION": 86.5029,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 355.4557,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 119.1208,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 241.0104,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 65820,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 5393,
"BSTAR": 0.00013558288,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 7.3e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}