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TIANMU-1 17

Commercial Weather (Radio Occultation) · MWS (Commercial)

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Tianmu #17, approaching the temporal resolution that makes weather data actionable in near-real-time — the equivalent of going from one daily weather balloon launch to continuous atmospheric monitoring at thousands of locations simultaneously.

Its orbit

Orbit
Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
Altitude
300–305 mi (483–491 km)
Inclination
97.5°
One orbit
94.2 minutes15.3 orbits a day
NORAD ID
58702
Int’l designator
2024-004C
Launched
2024

Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.

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