NORAD 41556
ZY 3 2
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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From your location
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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
- 41556
- International designator
- 2016-033A
- Launch date
- May 30, 2016
- Launch site
- Taiyaun Space Center, China
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,201.038 MHz · BPSK
- Beacon
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- Mode
- BPSK
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 · BPSK
- Downlink
- 2,201.038 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
- 200,000
Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 04:24:46 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 95 minutes, on an orbit tilted 97.4° from the equator, between 1,481 and 27,501 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About ZY 3 2
ZY 3 2 is a satellite from China, launched on May 30, 2016 from Taiyaun Space Center, China.
It circles Earth every 95 minutes (15.2 times a day), between 493 and 511 km up, on an orbit tilted 97.4° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 83° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
Ziyuan 3-02 · Chinese Earth observation satellite
- Operated by
- Ministry of Land and Resources of the People's Republic of China
- Built by
- China Academy of Space Technology
Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 493 km to 493 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.