Communications
TIANQI-23
Chinese Commercial Satellite IoT · Guodian Gaoke (China)
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Tianqi-23, part of China's Tianqi ('Sky Enquiry') commercial satellite IoT constellation, relaying data from remote agricultural, forestry, and environmental sensors — China's domestic alternative to Western satellite messaging networks like ORBCOMM. By the mid-20s numbering, the constellation had grown large enough to provide meaningfully dense coverage across China's vast rural interior.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 505–517 mi (813–832 km)
- Inclination
- 50.0°
- One orbit
- 101.2 minutes14.2 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 57794
- Int’l designator
- 2023-135C
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.