Geostationary
BEIDOU-3 G4
Navigation (BeiDou-3 GEO, Global) · CNSA / China
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A newer BeiDou-3 geostationary satellite providing additional capacity and redundancy for China's global navigation system. As BeiDou has gained international adoption — now used across much of Asia, Africa, and along the Belt and Road — the GEO component's Short Message Service has found new applications in maritime safety, disaster response, and government communications across dozens of nations.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,228–22,256 mi (35,773–35,817 km)
- Inclination
- 0.5°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 56564
- Int’l designator
- 2023-066A
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 7 Nov 2026.
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