NORAD 33409
SHIJIAN 6 03B (SJ-6 03B)
Time
- Local time
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Position
- Latitude
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- Longitude
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- Altitude
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Speed
- Miles per hour
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- Kilometers per second
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- Miles per second
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From your location
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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- Right ascension
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- Declination
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 33409
- International designator
- 2008-053B
- Launch date
- Oct 25, 2008
- Launch site
- Taiyaun Space Center, China
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,251.443 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- FM
Active transmitters from SatNOGS DB, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
- Azimuth
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- Elevation
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- Range
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- Range rate
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- Naked-eye visibility
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- Sub-satellite grid
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- Footprint diameter
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Upcoming passes
Next 48 h · your local timeUse your location to predict passes.
Mutual visibility
With another station · next 48 hUse your location to find mutual windows.
Transmitters
Nominal · add location for DopplerS-band telemetry
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 2,251.443 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-04 12:04:30 UTC
- TLE age
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Radio data from SatNOGS DB and SatNOGS Network, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Its orbit in 3D
Goes round Earth once every 96 minutes, on an orbit tilted 97.9° from the equator, between 555 and 568 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About SHIJIAN 6 03B (SJ-6 03B)
SHIJIAN 6 03B (SJ-6 03B) is a satellite from China, launched on Oct 25, 2008 from Taiyaun Space Center, China.
It circles Earth every 96 minutes (15.0 times a day), between 540 and 565 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.9° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 82° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Shijian-6F · 33409
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 24 days its lowest point went from 539 km to 541 km. Sudden rises are engine burns that lift the orbit; slow declines are drag from the thin upper atmosphere.
From Space-Track element sets, one point a day.