NORAD 41898
TANSAT
Time
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Position
- Latitude
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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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- Local sidereal time
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Sunlight
- Day / night
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Identity
- NORAD ID
- 41898
- International designator
- 2016-081A
- Launch date
- Dec 21, 2016
- Launch site
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China
- Radar size (RCS)
- Large (over 1 m²)
Radio
- Uplink
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- Downlink
- 2,218.326 MHz · FM
- Beacon
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- Mode
- FM
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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 DopplerMode S
Transmitter · FM
- Downlink
- 2,218.326 MHz
- CTCSS
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- Baud
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Recent receptions
SatNOGS Network-
Orbit data
- TLE epoch
- 2026-11-02 04:58:07 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 99 minutes, on an orbit tilted 98.5° from the equator, between 735 and 754 km up. Earth is drawn to scale.
Drag to turn · pinch to zoom · it moves live
About TANSAT
TANSAT is a satellite from China, launched on Dec 21, 2016 from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China.
It circles Earth every 99 minutes (14.6 times a day), between 679 and 707 km up, on an orbit tilted 98.5° to the equator, so its path covers latitudes up to 81° north and south.
The map shows where it is right now; the pass list tells you when it next comes over your location.
TanSat · Chinese Earth observation satellite
- Operated by
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
Wikipedia article ↗ · Names and facts: Wikidata (CC0).
Orbit height over the past year
Over the last 22 days its lowest point went from 679 km to 679 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.