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FENGYUN 3D — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 43010)
Track FENGYUN 3D (NORAD catalog number 43010) 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 has been on orbit since 2017, launched on the 72nd orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2017-072A). It went up together with 1 other satellite from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 45,663 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.44 km/s, FENGYUN 3D flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 832 × 835 km, completing one revolution every 101.4 minutes — about 14.2 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0002). Its 99.0° retrograde, near-polar inclination is characteristic of a Sun-synchronous orbit — the type Earth-imaging and weather satellites use to revisit each spot at the same local solar time. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 226.2°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 1.02° per day, matching the Sun's apparent motion — which is what holds its lighting constant.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~832 km × 835 km |
| Inclination | 99.02° |
| Orbital period | 101.4 min (14.20 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00017 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2017-072A |
| NORAD catalog number | 43010 |
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
FENGYUN 3D's name places it among WatchSat's 36 weather and environmental-monitoring satellites — a family that includes the NOAA, GOES, METEOSAT, METOP, FENGYUN, HIMAWARI and DMSP fleets. Browse all other active satellites live in 3D.
Can you see FENGYUN 3D from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, FENGYUN 3D 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 FENGYUN 3D in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- HEAD-1 (NORAD 43011)
- NOAA 20 (JPSS-1) (NORAD 43013)
- MOHAMMED VI-A (NORAD 43005)
- MAKERSAT 0 (NORAD 43016)
- RADFXSAT (FOX-1B) (NORAD 43017)
- JILIN-1 04 (NORAD 43022)
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