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TIANPING 2C — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 52156)
Track TIANPING 2C (NORAD catalog number 52156) 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 D of 2022's 32nd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2022-032D). 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 24,324 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.60 km/s, TIANPING 2C flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 534 × 541 km, completing one revolution every 95.2 minutes — about 15.1 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0005). Its 97.6° 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 301.9°. 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 | ~534 km × 541 km |
| Inclination | 97.58° |
| Orbital period | 95.2 min (15.12 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00051 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2022-032D |
| NORAD catalog number | 52156 |
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
TIANPING 2C 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 TIANPING 2C from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, TIANPING 2C 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 TIANPING 2C in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- TIANPING 2B (NORAD 52155)
- OMNI-L1 (NORAD 52157)
- GNOMES-3 (NORAD 52158)
- TIANPING 2A (NORAD 52153)
- ENMAP (NORAD 52159)
- PUJIANG 2 (PJ-2) (NORAD 52151)
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