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JILIN-1 KUANFU 01C — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 52443)
Track JILIN-1 KUANFU 01C (NORAD catalog number 52443) 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 2022, launched on the 48th orbital launch of that year (COSPAR designation 2022-048A). As of this element set it had completed roughly 23,958 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.61 km/s, JILIN-1 KUANFU 01C flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 531 × 557 km, completing one revolution every 95.4 minutes — about 15.1 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0019). Its 97.5° 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 325.9°. Earth's equatorial bulge precesses that plane eastward about 0.98° 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 | ~531 km × 557 km |
| Inclination | 97.52° |
| Orbital period | 95.4 min (15.10 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00191 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2022-048A |
| NORAD catalog number | 52443 |
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.
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Can you see JILIN-1 KUANFU 01C from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, JILIN-1 KUANFU 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
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- BRO-6 (NORAD 52422)
- SUPERVIEW NEO-1 02 (NORAD 52322)
- SUPERVIEW NEO-1 01 (NORAD 52320)
- DAQI-1 (NORAD 52257)
- ZHONGXING-6D (NORAD 52255)
- COSMOS 2554 (NORAD 52202)
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