- Communications satellite
- OBJECT A
- NORAD 69472
- 2026-128A
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over the Atlantic Ocean
Orbit ends over Argentina
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Qianfan DTC 01 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 Qianfan DTC 01, 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 Mediterranean Sea LIVE
Where is Qianfan DTC 01?
At 9:16:12 PM UTC Qianfan DTC 01 was over the Mediterranean Sea (33.4° N, 17.8° E), 409 km up, moving at 7.67 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Qianfan DTC 01?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 9, 2026.
Can I see Qianfan DTC 01?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Qianfan DTC 01, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology Ltd
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites, SIMIT
- What it is
- Communications satellite
- Launched
- Mass
- 300 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
- 9:16 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 9:16 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 33.4° N, 17.8° E
- Altitude
- 409 km
- Speed
- 7.67 km/s (27,608 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 9:34 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 55°
- Orbital period
- 92.7 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.54
- This orbit
- 400 to 413 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,370 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 8, 2026, 7:11 AM, 14 hours old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 7:11 AM, 14 hours old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Qianfan DTC 01, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Qianfan DTC 01 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
Qianfan DTC 01 shares its launch, 2026-128, with 3 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.
Beside the others
| Satellite | Typical altitude | Orbital period | Mass | In space since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qianfan DTC 01 | 400 to 413 km | 93 minutes | 300 kg | 2026 |
| 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 8, 2026, 7:11 AM, 14 hours old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT A",
"OBJECT_ID": "2026-128A",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-08T07:11:36.900960",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.53619381,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00097726,
"INCLINATION": 54.9922,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 0.2673,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 302.925,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 57.0844,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 69472,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2364,
"BSTAR": 0.00056184734,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00036165,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}