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SHIJIAN-6 05B (SJ-6 05B)
Chinese Space Environment Research Satellite (Pair) · Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Companion to Shijian-6 05A, completing the newest Shijian-6 generation pair. Fifteen years and five satellite generations after the program began, Shijian-6 continues to be China's primary vehicle for direct, in-situ measurement of the radiation environment that every other Chinese satellite must be engineered to survive.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 330–333 mi (531–535 km)
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- One orbit
- 95.2 minutes15.1 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 49962
- Int’l designator
- 2021-122B
- Launched
- 2021
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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