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TIANMU-1 14
Commercial Weather (Radio Occultation) · MWS (Commercial)
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Tianmu #14. China's rapid commercial weather satellite deployment mirrors its infrastructure strategy in other sectors — build fast, build redundantly, achieve independence from foreign data providers. Weather data sovereignty is becoming as strategically important as energy independence.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 300–306 mi (483–492 km)
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- One orbit
- 94.2 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 58648
- Int’l designator
- 2023-205D
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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