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YAOGAN-39 02C
Chinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet) · CASC / PLA
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Third satellite completing Yaogan-39 group 02. Two full triplet generations in under a year gave China a constellation dense enough to revisit the same stretch of ocean multiple times per day — a cadence that makes far more sense for tracking something that moves than for imaging something that doesn't.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 326–327 mi (524–526 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 95.0 minutes15.2 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 57890
- Int’l designator
- 2023-145E
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
More classified
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- YAOGAN-39 03BChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)
- YAOGAN-39 03CChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)
- YAOGAN-39 04AChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)
- YAOGAN-39 04BChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)
- YAOGAN-39 04CChinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet)