CLASSIFIED
YAOGAN-36 05C
Chinese Military SAR Imaging (Assessed Triplet Constellation) · CASC / PLA
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Third satellite completing Yaogan-36 group 05, one of fifteen nearly identical spacecraft China has now launched under a single umbrella name whose stated mission has never matched the orbital behavior analysts actually observe. Every launch adds another data point to a pattern nobody outside Beijing will confirm or deny.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 325–326 mi (523–525 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 95.0 minutes15.2 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 57456
- Int’l designator
- 2023-106E
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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- YAOGAN-39 01BChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)
- YAOGAN-39 01CChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)
- YAOGAN-39 02AChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)
- YAOGAN-39 02BChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)