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YAOGAN-30 07C
Chinese ELINT Naval Surveillance (Yaogan-30 Triplet) · CASC / PLA
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Third satellite completing the Yaogan-30 group 07 triplet, launched June 2020. Twenty-one Yaogan-30 satellites across seven triplets now gave China's naval surveillance architecture a level of redundancy and coverage density that Western defense analysts increasingly cited as a core component of the PLA's anti-access/area-denial strategy against carrier strike groups.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 352–353 mi (567–569 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 95.9 minutes15.0 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 45462
- Int’l designator
- 2020-021C
- Launched
- 2020
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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