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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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