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BEIJING 1

Chinese-UK Joint Earth Observation Satellite · Beijing Landview Mapping / SSTL

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Beijing-1, China's first satellite jointly built with a foreign partner (Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd of the UK), launched in 2005 to provide disaster monitoring, land survey, and urban planning imagery for the Beijing municipal government — a genuinely civilian mission that helped establish China's early small-satellite Earth observation capability.

Its orbit

Orbit
Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
Altitude
420–432 mi (676–696 km)
Inclination
98.3°
One orbit
98.3 minutes14.6 orbits a day
NORAD ID
28890
Int’l designator
2005-043A
Launched
2005

Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.

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