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SHIJIAN-23 (SJ-23)
Technology Demonstration · CNSA
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China's Shijian-23 technology demonstration satellite, continuing the series of large GEO experiments that test advanced propulsion, communications, and satellite bus technologies. The SJ series has become China's proving ground for next-generation GEO capabilities — the satellites that demonstrate technologies eventually incorporated into China's operational military and commercial space platforms.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,277–22,293 mi (35,852–35,877 km)
- Inclination
- 4.0°
- One orbit
- 24.0 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 55131
- Int’l designator
- 2023-002A
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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