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YAOGAN-39 03B
Chinese Military Reconnaissance (Mixed-Sensor Triplet) · CASC / PLA
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Second satellite of Yaogan-39 group 03. Somewhere in the data this satellite is quietly collecting is the actual answer to what Yaogan-39 does — an answer that exists in full on servers in Beijing, and nowhere else on Earth.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 315–338 mi (507–544 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 95.0 minutes15.2 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 57988
- Int’l designator
- 2023-152C
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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