Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/66142

  • Military
  • TJS-20
  • NORAD 66142
  • 2025-238A
  • Inclined geosynchronous

Current orbit

Where Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Indian Ocean

Orbit ends over the Indian Ocean

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In view from you

Nobody watches Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20 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 Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Arabian Sea LIVE

Where is Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20?

At 6:46:03 PM UTC Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20 was over the Arabian Sea (5.2° N, 62.5° E), 35,796 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20?

A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Oct 23, 2025.

Can I see Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
General Armaments Dept. of the PLA
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad)
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
about 10 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
6:46 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
6:46 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
5.2° N, 62.5° E
Altitude
35,796 km
Speed
3.07 km/s (11,066 km/h)
Course
south-east
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
5.2°
Orbital period
1,436 minutes
Orbits per day
1
This orbit
35,773 to 35,800 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,940 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 2:42 AM, 16 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 2:42 AM, 16 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 20 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.

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 2:42 AM, 16 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "TJS-20",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2025-238A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T02:42:15.122592",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 1.00276312,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00031853,
  "INCLINATION": 5.157,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 299.1196,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 304.976,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 266.255,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 66142,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 377,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 2.3e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}