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YUNHAI-3 01 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 54235)
Track YUNHAI-3 01 (NORAD catalog number 54235) live on the WatchSat interactive 3D globe above. Its position is propagated in real time from the latest CelesTrak two-line element set using the SGP4/SDP4 orbital model — the same math professional trackers run. It has been on orbit since 2022, launched on the 151st orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2022-151A). As of this element set it had completed roughly 19,789 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.43 km/s, YUNHAI-3 01 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 854 × 856 km, completing one revolution every 101.9 minutes — about 14.1 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0001). Its 98.8° retrograde, near-polar inclination is characteristic of a Sun-synchronous orbit — the type Earth-imaging and weather satellites use to revisit each spot at the same local solar time. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 266.0°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.99° per day, matching the Sun's apparent motion — which is what holds its lighting constant.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~854 km × 856 km |
| Inclination | 98.82° |
| Orbital period | 101.9 min (14.13 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00011 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-16 |
| COSPAR designation | 2022-151A |
| NORAD catalog number | 54235 |
This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-09-17. The live 3D view above fetches its own current CelesTrak data when the page opens, through an edge cache that refreshes roughly every 30 minutes.
About the Other Active Satellites group
YUNHAI-3 01 is one of 4,464 active satellites in WatchSat's general catalog — the broad population of Earth-observation, communications, science, amateur-radio and technology spacecraft outside the giant broadband constellations. Browse all other active satellites live in 3D.
Can you see YUNHAI-3 01 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, YUNHAI-3 01 is visible only around dawn and dusk, when your sky is dark but the satellite is still sunlit — and whether you can spot it depends on its size and reflectivity. See pass predictions for your location are available on this page once you select the satellite and share your position for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.
Related satellites
Nearest catalog neighbors of YUNHAI-3 01 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- NOAA 21 (JPSS-2) (NORAD 54234)
- ZHONGXING-19 (NORAD 54230)
- MATS (NORAD 54227)
- GALAXY 31 (G-31) (NORAD 54243)
- GALAXY 32 (G-32) (NORAD 54244)
- EUTELSAT HOTBIRD 13G (NORAD 54225)
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