- Communications satellite
- OBJECT B
- NORAD 69473
- 2026-128B
- Low Earth orbit
Current orbit
View on live mapOrbit began over Chile
Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean
In the Earth’s shadow since
Back in sunlight
In view from you
Nobody watches Zhongguo Yidong 02 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 Zhongguo Yidong 02, 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 Atlantic Ocean LIVE
Where is Zhongguo Yidong 02?
At 11:27:54 PM UTC Zhongguo Yidong 02 was over the Atlantic Ocean (14° N, 33.2° W), 395 km up, moving at 7.68 km/s and in the Earth’s shadow.
What is Zhongguo Yidong 02?
A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jun 9, 2026.
Can I see Zhongguo Yidong 02?
No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Zhongguo Yidong 02, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.
General
- Operator
- China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd
- State
- China, People's Republic of
- Built by
- Galaxy Aerospace
- 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
- 11:27 PM UTC
- Station time (UTC)
- 11:27 PM UTC
- Latitude / longitude
- 14° N, 33.2° W
- Altitude
- 395 km
- Speed
- 7.68 km/s (27,637 km/h)
- Course
- north-east
- Light
- In the Earth’s shadow until 11:52 PM UTC
- Inclination
- 55°
- Orbital period
- 92.5 minutes
- Orbits per day
- 15.57
- This orbit
- 392 to 401 km
- In shadow
- 35 minutes of each orbit
- In view from
- Within 1,330 km of the point below it
- Elements epoch
- Nov 7, 2026, 11:57 AM, 1 day old
- Source
- Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 11:57 AM, 1 day old.
No operator publishes an ephemeris for Zhongguo Yidong 02, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.
In orbit
- Close approaches
- No close approach to Zhongguo Yidong 02 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
Zhongguo Yidong 02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhongguo Yidong 02 | 392 to 401 km | 92 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 7, 2026, 11:57 AM, 1 day old.
{
"OBJECT_NAME": "OBJECT B",
"OBJECT_ID": "2026-128B",
"EPOCH": "2026-11-07T11:57:24.366816",
"MEAN_MOTION": 15.56990329,
"ECCENTRICITY": 0.00067338,
"INCLINATION": 55.0033,
"RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 3.8069,
"ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 307.2814,
"MEAN_ANOMALY": 52.7607,
"EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
"CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
"NORAD_CAT_ID": 69473,
"ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
"REV_AT_EPOCH": 2351,
"BSTAR": 0.00054165007,
"MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.0003947,
"MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}