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YAOGAN-43 01D
Chinese Military LEO Constellation Testbed · CASC / PLA
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Part of the Yaogan-43 group 01 nine-satellite deployment, contributing to China's evaluation of distributed small-satellite architectures for future military low Earth orbit applications. The batch's diverse manufacturer origins hint that China may be comparison-testing competing satellite bus designs from different contractors within the same orbital deployment.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 300–301 mi (482–484 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 94.1 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 60461
- Int’l designator
- 2024-148D
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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