Bai Xiang

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/68412

  • XINZHENGCHENG 02
  • NORAD 68412
  • 2026-066A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Bai Xiang is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Greenland Sea

Orbit ends over Greenland

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Bai Xiang 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 Bai Xiang, 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 Arctic Ocean LIVE

Where is Bai Xiang?

At 6:45:30 PM UTC Bai Xiang was over the Arctic Ocean (75.2° N, 174.2° W), 599 km up, moving at 7.58 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Bai Xiang?

A satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Mar 30, 2026.

Can I see Bai Xiang?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Bai Xiang, and nothing here estimates one.

General

Operator
Institute of Microsatellite Innovation, CAS
State
China, People's Republic of
Built by
Institute of Microsatellite Innovation, CAS
Launched
Mass
about 4.2 t
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, 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
75.2° N, 174.2° W
Altitude
599 km
Speed
7.58 km/s (27,274 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
85°
Orbital period
96.7 minutes
Orbits per day
14.89
This orbit
580 to 619 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 1,760 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 6:13 PM, 1 day old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 6:13 PM, 1 day old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Bai Xiang, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Bai Xiang 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.

Launched with

Bai Xiang shares its launch, 2026-066, with 2 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
XINZHENGCHENG 01Satellite
TIANSHI 01Satellite

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, 6:13 PM, 1 day old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "XINZHENGCHENG 02",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-066A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T18:13:06.231360",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 14.8852005,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00274261,
  "INCLINATION": 84.9644,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 136.4344,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 110.7051,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 249.7117,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 68412,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 3308,
  "BSTAR": 0.00006228198,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000613,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}