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YAOGAN-25 01C — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 40340)
Track YAOGAN-25 01C (NORAD catalog number 40340) live on the WatchSat interactive 3D globe above. Its position is propagated in real time from the latest CelesTrak two-line element set using the SGP4/SDP4 orbital model — the same math professional trackers run. It is object C of 2014's 80th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2014-080C). It went up together with 2 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 57,679 revolutions of Earth.
Its speed swings from 7.04 km/s at apogee to 7.58 km/s at perigee. YAOGAN-25 01C flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 817 × 1,376 km, completing one revolution every 107.0 minutes — about 13.5 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is mildly elliptical (eccentricity 0.0374), so its altitude varies between 817 km and 1,376 km over each revolution. Inclined 63.4° to the equator, it overflies every latitude up to about 63° north and south. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 99.8°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 2.58° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~817 km × 1,376 km |
| Inclination | 63.38° |
| Orbital period | 107.0 min (13.45 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.03742 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2014-080C |
| NORAD catalog number | 40340 |
This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-09-08. The live 3D view above fetches its own current CelesTrak data when the page opens, through an edge cache that refreshes roughly every 30 minutes.
About the Other Active Satellites group
YAOGAN-25 01C is one of 4,471 active satellites in WatchSat's general catalog — the broad population of Earth-observation, communications, science, amateur-radio and technology spacecraft outside the giant broadband constellations. Browse all other active satellites live in 3D.
Can you see YAOGAN-25 01C from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, YAOGAN-25 01C is visible only around dawn and dusk, when your sky is dark but the satellite is still sunlit — and whether you can spot it depends on its size and reflectivity. See pass predictions for your location for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.
Related satellites
Nearest catalog neighbors of YAOGAN-25 01C in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- YAOGAN-25 01B (NORAD 40339)
- YAOGAN-25 01A (NORAD 40338)
- CBERS 4 (NORAD 40336)
- YAMAL 401 (NORAD 40345)
- DIRECTV 14 (NORAD 40333)
- O3B FM10 (NORAD 40348)
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