Geostationary
TJS-23
Military Communications (Assessed) · CNSA / PLA (Assessed)
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One of the newest TJS satellites. Chinese officials have not acknowledged the military nature of the TJS series, but the operational pace and scale of the program, combined with observed anomalous behaviors, have convinced US Space Force and independent analysts that TJS represents a major Chinese military GEO capability development program rather than any experimental communications initiative.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,232–22,253 mi (35,778–35,813 km)
- Inclination
- 5.4°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 67226
- Int’l designator
- 2025-306A
- Launched
- 2025
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.