Geostationary
ZHONGXING-3A
Commercial Broadband · ChinaSat
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A recent Chinese communications satellite providing Ka-band high-throughput broadband across China and neighboring countries. Zhongxing-3A is part of China's push to deploy next-generation broadband satellite capacity domestically, reducing reliance on foreign high-throughput satellite services and building China's position as a satellite internet provider across its Belt and Road partner countries.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,236–22,249 mi (35,786–35,806 km)
- Inclination
- 0.0°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 60179
- Int’l designator
- 2024-122A
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 21 Sep 2026.
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