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JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3C, 46455

Orbit data source: Space-Track

JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3C, 46455 is a payload satellite owned by Changguang WJ (CN) in SSO that was launched on Tue, 15 Sep 2020 UTC via a CHANG ZHENG 11 launch vehicle from the Yellow Sea Launch Area, China (YSLA). Payload-class satellites include a variety of spacecraft equipped with specific instruments for various scientific and technological missions. These include communications satellites like Starlink; space stations such as the ISS; scientific satellites like the Hubble; Earth observation satellites from companies like Planet Labs, Umbra, and HawkEye 360; GPS; miniature CubeSats for education and research; and military/defense satellites.

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Identifier

46455, 2020-065B

Orbit

SSO

Last TLE update

6 hours ago

Origin

CGSTL (CN / PRC)

Manufacturer

Changguang WJ

Mission

Operational Commercial Imaging

Bus & Motor

JL-1, Unknown motor

Mass

42 kg wet, 42 kg dry

Launch date (UTC)

2020-09-15 (5 years ago)

Launch vehicle

CHANG ZHENG 11

Launch site

Yellow Sea Launch Area, China (YSLA)

Object type

Payload

Rocket body

Debris

Shape & HBR

Box + 2 Pan, 1.5 m

Radar Cross Section

2.000 m², Medium (>0.1 m² and < 1m²)

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TLE from 6 hours ago

0 JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3C
1 46455U 20065B   25118.19019195  .00047360  00000-0  97331-3 0  9995
2 46455  97.2843 165.8786 0003510 171.8679 188.2628 15.45840436255768

Epoch: 2025-04-28T04:33Z

Definitive object data (Epoch: 2025-04-28T04:33:52.584Z)

Latitude

-0.00002°

Longitude

-118.99827°

Altitude

434.404 km

Speed

7.65 km/s

True Right ascension

11h 03m 30s

True Declination

0° 00' 00"

Sunlit

Object was in full shadow at TLE epoch

Visualization TLE readout

Latitude

-34.97033°

Longitude

56.13473°

Altitude

440.456 km

Speed

7.647 km/s

Apparent Right ascension

01h 50m 40s

Apparent Declination

-50° 27' 55"

Sunlit

Object is in daylight

Visualization observer readout

Local Sidereal Time

17:35:13

Azimuth

124.549° SE

Elevation

-50.078°

Doppler factor

Orbital elements

Apogee altitude

428.224 km

Perigee altitude

423.448 km

Semi-major axis

6,803.973 km

Eccentricity

0.000351

Inclination

97.2843°

RAAN

165.8786°

Arg. of periapsis

171.8679°

True anomaly

188.25702°

Mean anomaly

188.2628°

Eccentric anomaly

188.25991°

Mean motion

3.86722 °/min

BSTAR

0.00097331

Orbital period

93.09 mins

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Other satellites on launch #65 in the year 2020 (2020-09-15 UTC)

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JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3F, 46458

JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3G, 46459

JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3H, 46460

JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3I, 46461

JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3J, 46462

CZ-11 R/B, 46463 (Decayed)

JILIN-01 GAOFEN 3C Visibility forecast

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Span	Click to sort rows by Start time (UTC) header in descending order	Start Az.	Max El. time (UTC)	Max El. Az.	Max El.	End time (UTC)	End Az.
5 mins	2025-04-28 16:00:09.011Z	12.264° NNE	2025-04-28 16:02:09.011Z	15.043° NNE	42.928°	2025-04-28 16:05:09.011Z	192.23° SSW

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