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TIANMU-1 12

Commercial Weather (Radio Occultation) · MWS (Commercial)

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Tianmu #12 deployed alongside three sisters in a rideshare launch. Each compact satellite provides atmospheric soundings that most improve forecasts over the world's least-observed ocean regions, where model errors accumulate fastest and storm track forecasts diverge the most.

Its orbit

Orbit
Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
Altitude
300–306 mi (482–493 km)
Inclination
97.3°
One orbit
94.2 minutes15.3 orbits a day
NORAD ID
58646
Int’l designator
2023-205B
Launched
2023

Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.

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