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LKW-4
Chinese Commercial Earth Observation Satellite · Chinese Commercial Operator
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LKW-4, part of a Chinese commercial Earth observation satellite series providing multispectral imagery for agricultural and land-use monitoring customers, one node in China's rapidly diversifying commercial remote sensing sector that has grown from a handful of state-run programs into dozens of competing commercial operators within a decade.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 223–225 mi (359–362 km)
- Inclination
- 97.6°
- One orbit
- 91.6 minutes15.7 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 43236
- Int’l designator
- 2018-025A
- Launched
- 2018
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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