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FENGYUN 3E — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 49008)
Track FENGYUN 3E (NORAD catalog number 49008) 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 62nd orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2021-062A). As of this element set it had completed roughly 26,823 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.44 km/s, FENGYUN 3E flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 832 × 834 km, completing one revolution every 101.4 minutes — about 14.2 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0001). Its 98.8° 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 252.8°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.99° 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 × 834 km |
| Inclination | 98.75° |
| Orbital period | 101.4 min (14.20 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00012 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2021-062A |
| NORAD catalog number | 49008 |
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 3E'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 3E from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, FENGYUN 3E 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 3E in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- TIANLIAN 1-05 (NORAD 49011)
- JILIN-1 KUANFU-01B (NORAD 49003)
- NINGXIA-1 6 (NORAD 49018)
- NINGXIA-1 7 (NORAD 49019)
- NINGXIA-1 8 (NORAD 49020)
- NINGXIA-1 9 (NORAD 49021)
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