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YAOGAN-35 02B
Chinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Group) · CASC / PLA
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Second satellite of the Yaogan-35 group 02 formation, part of China's evolving mixed-sensor reconnaissance architecture. As Yaogan-35 groups proliferated through 2022 and beyond, they began to look increasingly like a deliberate successor to the aging Yaogan-30 ELINT program, combining that system's naval surveillance role with additional optical or radar imaging capability in the same satellite family.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 203–210 mi (327–338 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 91.0 minutes15.8 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 52908
- Int’l designator
- 2022-068B
- Launched
- 2022
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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