Geostationary
TJS-14
Military Communications (Assessed) · CNSA / PLA (Assessed)
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Part of China's rapidly expanding TJS classified GEO program. The frequency with which China is launching these satellites — sometimes multiple per year — indicates urgency in building out a capability the PLA considers operationally essential. The TJS constellation provides China with a robust, redundant, and presumably jam-resistant military communications network across the geostationary arc.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,233–22,251 mi (35,781–35,809 km)
- Inclination
- 0.6°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 62804
- Int’l designator
- 2025-017A
- Launched
- 2025
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.