NORAD 40275
YAOGAN 22
Time
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Position
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Speed
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From your location
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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 40275
- International designator
- 2014-063A
- Launch date
- Oct 20, 2014
- Launch site
- Taiyaun Space Center, China
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
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- Beacon
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- Mode
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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 Doppler-
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 10:42:32 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 109 minutes, on an orbit tilted 100.8° from the equator, between 1,199 and 1,219 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About YAOGAN 22
YAOGAN 22 is a satellite from China, launched on Oct 20, 2014 from Taiyaun Space Center, China.
It circles Earth every 109 minutes (13.2 times a day), between 1,197 and 1,206 km up, on an orbit tilted 100.8° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 79° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Yaogan 22 · satellite
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 1,197 km to 1,197 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.