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TIANMU-1 22
Commercial Weather (Radio Occultation) · MWS (Commercial)
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The twenty-second Tianmu satellite. For the first time, a non-Western commercial entity is positioning itself as a primary weather data supplier to meteorological services globally — including in Africa and Southeast Asia where coverage has historically been critically poor.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 292–296 mi (471–476 km)
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- One orbit
- 93.9 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 58663
- Int’l designator
- 2023-208D
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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