Geostationary
TJS-22
Military Communications (Assessed) · CNSA / PLA (Assessed)
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Part of China's continuing TJS classified GEO satellite program. The rapid cadence of TJS launches — several per year through 2024 and 2025 — reflects China's strategic determination to achieve parity with the United States in geostationary military capability. Each new TJS satellite makes China's space-based military architecture more resilient, redundant, and difficult to counter.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,230–22,253 mi (35,776–35,812 km)
- Inclination
- 1.3°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 66990
- Int’l designator
- 2025-290A
- Launched
- 2025
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.