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YAOGAN-43 01H
Chinese Military LEO Constellation Testbed · CASC / PLA
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Part of the Yaogan-43 group 01 nine-satellite deployment, one of China's more unusual recent military satellite launches given its scale and multi-manufacturer composition. The batch likely serves as a proving ground for constellation management, deployment, and inter-satellite coordination techniques relevant to China's broader ambitions for distributed military space architectures.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 301–306 mi (484–493 km)
- Inclination
- 35.0°
- One orbit
- 94.2 minutes15.3 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 60465
- Int’l designator
- 2024-148H
- Launched
- 2024
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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