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YAOGAN-35 05B
Chinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Group) · CASC / PLA
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Part of the Yaogan-35 group 05 formation, contributing to China's continuously expanding mixed-sensor reconnaissance capability. The combined scale of Yaogan-35 and its companion Yaogan-36 program by this point exceeded fifty satellites across both families — a reconnaissance buildout rate that Western defense analysts increasingly cited as evidence of accelerating Chinese military space investment.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 278–282 mi (447–453 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 93.4 minutes15.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 53761
- Int’l designator
- 2022-109B
- Launched
- 2022
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
More classified
- YAOGAN-35 05CChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Group)
- YAOGAN-36 01AChinese Military SAR Imaging (Assessed Triplet Constellation)
- YAOGAN-36 01CChinese Military SAR Imaging (Assessed Triplet Constellation)
- YAOGAN-36 02AChinese Military SAR Imaging (Assessed Triplet Constellation)
- YAOGAN-36 02BChinese Military SAR Imaging (Assessed Triplet Constellation)
- YAOGAN-36 02CChinese Military SAR Imaging (Assessed Triplet Constellation)