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TIANMU-1 18
Commercial Weather (Radio Occultation) · MWS (Commercial)
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Tianmu #18. The constellation now produces more GPS occultation soundings per day than any single national agency's system — a remarkable achievement for a commercial entity that barely existed five years before.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 301–305 mi (484–491 km)
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- One orbit
- 94.2 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 58703
- Int’l designator
- 2024-004D
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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