- Military
- SJ-29A
- NORAD 67302
- 2025-315A
- Geostationary
Current orbit
View on live mapOne orbit takes a day, as long as the Earth takes to turn, so Shi Jian 29A keeps above 73.3° E of the equator and never crosses the sky.
It never rises or sets
Shi Jian 29A turns with the Earth, standing over one longitude of the equator. From anywhere it can be seen at all it is up day and night, in the same direction, so there is no pass to wait for.
No brightness has been published for Shi Jian 29A, 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 wait for: it never crosses the sky. From the half of the Earth it stands over it keeps the same point day and night, and from the other half it never rises at all.
Timeline
- Launch
Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source
- Rendezvous
USA 325 came up beside Shi Jian 29A, January 2026 to March 2026, as public sources state. Its sources
- Rendezvous
USA 324 came up beside Shi Jian 29A, from Mar 14, 2026, as public sources state. Its sources
Summary
Over the Indian Ocean LIVE
Where is Shi Jian 29A?
At 6:45:41 PM UTC Shi Jian 29A was over the Indian Ocean (2.8° S, 73.3° E), 35,809 km up, standing over one longitude of the equator and in sunlight.
What is Shi Jian 29A?
A satellite in geostationary orbit, in space since Dec 30, 2025.
Can I see Shi Jian 29A?
No, not with the naked eye, and it never crosses the sky: Shi Jian 29A stands over 73.3° E of the equator.
General
- Operator
- Strategic Support Troops
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Academy of Space Technology (CASC 8th Acad)
- Military
- Yes: a defence organisation flies it
- Launched
- Mass
- about 6 t
- Operating
- Yes
- Orbit class
- Geostationary
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
- 6:45 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 6:45 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 2.8° S, 73.3° E
- Altitude
- 35,809 km
- Speed
- 3.07 km/s (11,063 km/h)
- Course
- Stands over 73.3° E
- Light
- In sunlight
- Inclination
- 3.8°
- Orbital period
- 1,435.9 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 1
- This orbit
- 35,758 to 35,811 km
- In view from
- Within 7,940 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 11:35 PM, 19 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:35 PM, 19 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Shi Jian 29A, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Shi Jian 29A 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
Shi Jian 29A shares its launch, 2025-315, 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, 11:35 PM, 19 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "SJ-29A",
"OBJECT_ID": "2025-315A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T23:35:51.503136",
"MEAN_MOTION": 1.00283238,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00063716,
"INCLINATION": 3.7573,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 91.5991,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 114.6051,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 268.1847,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 67302,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 306,
"BSTAR": 0,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": -6.3e-7,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}