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PIESAT B
Chinese Commercial SAR Imaging Satellite (Formation) · PIESAT Information Technology (China)
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PIESat B, part of a Chinese commercial SAR satellite formation providing all-weather radar imagery for infrastructure monitoring, ground deformation tracking, and disaster response — flying in coordinated formation with its three siblings to compress revisit time over any target well below what a single satellite could achieve alone.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 327–328 mi (526–528 km)
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- One orbit
- 95.0 minutes15.2 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 56154
- Int’l designator
- 2023-047B
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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