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YAOGAN-30 02C
Chinese ELINT Naval Surveillance (Yaogan-30 Triplet) · CASC / PLA
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Third satellite completing the Yaogan-30 group 02 triplet. With two full triplets now operational barely two months apart, China demonstrated it could replicate the Yaogan-30 naval signals triangulation formation on a genuinely industrial launch cadence — a pattern of rapid, repeated deployment that would define the entire program for the next seven years.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 347–351 mi (558–566 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 95.7 minutes15.0 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 42947
- Int’l designator
- 2017-058C
- Launched
- 2017
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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