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YAOGAN-30 05C
Chinese ELINT Naval Surveillance (Yaogan-30 Triplet) · CASC / PLA
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Third satellite completing the Yaogan-30 group 05 triplet, launched July 2019. Five operational triplets — fifteen satellites — gave China's naval ELINT triangulation network Pacific coverage far exceeding what most Western intelligence assessments had projected when the program quietly began with a single triplet in September 2017.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 352–354 mi (566–569 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 95.9 minutes15.0 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 43172
- Int’l designator
- 2018-011D
- Launched
- 2018
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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