- Military
- TJS-23
- NORAD 67226
- 2025-306A
- Inclined geosynchronous
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Pacific Ocean
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In view from you
Nobody watches Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23 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 23, 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
- Rendezvous
USA 325 came up beside Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23, from Aug 8, 2026, as public sources state. Its sources
Summary
Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE
Where is Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23?
At 6:46:09 PM UTC Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23 was over the Pacific Ocean (2.5° S, 175.3° E), 35,790 km up, moving at 3.07 km/s and in sunlight.
What is Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23?
A satellite in an inclined geosynchronous orbit, in space since Dec 20, 2025.
Can I see Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23, 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
- 2.5° S, 175.3° E
- Altitude
- 35,790 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,066 km/h)
- Course
- south
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 5.3°
- Orbital period
- 1,436.1 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,768 to 35,807 km
- In shadow
- None of this orbit
- In view from
- Within 7,940 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 4:55 AM, 13 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 4:55 AM, 13 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23 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
Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 23 shares its launch, 2025-306, with one other body the catalogue lists in orbit.
| Body | What it is |
|---|---|
| CZ-5 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.
Data and API
The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 4:55 AM, 13 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "TJS-23",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-306A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T04:55:06.655296",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00271198,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00046355,
"INCLINATION": 5.2685,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 296.8596,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 307.9718,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 51.8289,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 67226,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 333,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 1.6e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}