Geostationary
BEIDOU-3 G2
Navigation (BeiDou-3 GEO, Global) · CNSA / China
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The second BeiDou-3 geostationary satellite, providing redundancy and enhanced short message service capacity for the global BeiDou constellation. BeiDou-3 GEO satellites are also part of China's satellite-based augmentation system, providing high-precision positioning corrections that enable centimeter-level accuracy across the Asia-Pacific — critical for Chinese precision-guided weapons and autonomous systems.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,236–22,248 mi (35,785–35,804 km)
- Inclination
- 2.6°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 45344
- Int’l designator
- 2020-017A
- Launched
- 2020
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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