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YAOGAN-31 02A — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 47532)

Track YAOGAN-31 02A (NORAD catalog number 47532) 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 2021, launched on the 7th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2021-007A). 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 28,120 revolutions of Earth.

Moving at about 7.44 km/s, YAOGAN-31 02A flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 956 × 1,236 km, completing one revolution every 107.0 minutes — about 13.5 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0187). 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 178.9°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 2.57° per day.

Orbital elements

Orbit regime	low Earth orbit (LEO)
Perigee × apogee altitude	~956 km × 1,236 km
Inclination	63.40°
Orbital period	107.0 min (13.45 rev/day)
Eccentricity	0.01872
Element set epoch	2026-10-21
COSPAR designation	2021-007A
NORAD catalog number	47532

This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-10-23. 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.

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YAOGAN-31 02A is one of 4,802 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-31 02A from the ground?

Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, YAOGAN-31 02A 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 the “When can I see it?” panel in the live view for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.

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