NORAD 38860
SJ-9A
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 38860
- International designator
- 2012-056A
- Launch date
- Oct 14, 2012
- Launch site
- Taiyaun Space Center, China
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,214.464 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- FM
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Your station
- Grid locator
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Live
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- Range
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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 DopplerMode S
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 2,214.464 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 21:56:15 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 97 minutes, on an orbit tilted 97.7° from the equator, between 659 and 714 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About SJ-9A
SJ-9A is a satellite from China, launched on Oct 14, 2012 from Taiyaun Space Center, China.
It circles Earth every 97 minutes (14.9 times a day), between 593 and 629 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.7° 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.
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 595 km to 593 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.