Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/69859

  • Communications satellite
  • QIANFAN-230
  • NORAD 69859
  • 2026-155M
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over Baffin Bay

Orbit ends over Canada

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12 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 Xingzuo 15-12, 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

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over the Indian Ocean LIVE

Where is Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12?

At 5:35:32 PM UTC Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12 was over the Indian Ocean (45.7° S, 96° E), 1,087 km up, moving at 7.31 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Jul 5, 2026.

Can I see Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12, 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
267 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
5:35 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
5:35 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
45.7° S, 96° E
Altitude
1,087 km
Speed
7.31 km/s (26,305 km/h)
Course
north
Light
In sunlight until 5:36 PM UTC
Inclination
89°
Orbital period
106.6 minutes
Orbits per day
13.51
This orbit
1,064 to 1,067 km
In shadow
35 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 2,530 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 7, 2026, 8:29 PM, 21 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 7, 2026, 8:29 PM, 21 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12 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

Qianfan Xingzuo 15-12 shares its launch, 2026-155, with 20 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
QIANFAN-219Communications satellite
QIANFAN-220Communications satellite
QIANFAN-221Communications satellite
QIANFAN-222Communications satellite
QIANFAN-223Communications satellite
QIANFAN-224Communications satellite
QIANFAN-225Communications satellite
QIANFAN-226Communications satellite
QIANFAN-227Communications satellite
QIANFAN-228Communications satellite
QIANFAN-229Communications satellite
QIANFAN-231Communications satellite
QIANFAN-232Communications satellite
QIANFAN-233Communications satellite
QIANFAN-234Communications satellite
QIANFAN-235Communications satellite
QIANFAN-236Communications satellite
QIANFAN-237Communications satellite
QIANFAN-238Communications satellite
CZ-8A R/BRocket 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.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Qianfan Xingzuo 15-121,064 to 1,067 km107 minutes267 kg2026
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 7, 2026, 8:29 PM, 21 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "QIANFAN-230",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-155M",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-07T20:29:16.883232",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.51041888,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0001987,
  "INCLINATION": 89.0159,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 48.9203,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 109.2651,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 250.8715,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 69859,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 1724,
  "BSTAR": 0.00023581,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00000164,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}