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QIANFAN-101 — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 66043)
Track QIANFAN-101 (NORAD catalog number 66043) 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 L of 2025's 233rd orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2025-233L). It went up together with 17 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 4,627 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.46 km/s, QIANFAN-101 flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 800 × 819 km, completing one revolution every 100.9 minutes — about 14.3 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0013). Inclined 89.0° — nearly pole-to-pole — its ground track sweeps essentially every latitude. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 31.2°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane westward about 0.11° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~800 km × 819 km |
| Inclination | 89.00° |
| Orbital period | 100.9 min (14.27 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00134 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-06 |
| COSPAR designation | 2025-233L |
| NORAD catalog number | 66043 |
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
QIANFAN-101 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 QIANFAN-101 from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, QIANFAN-101 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 QIANFAN-101 in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- QIANFAN-100 (NORAD 66042)
- QIANFAN-102 (NORAD 66044)
- QIANFAN-99 (NORAD 66041)
- QIANFAN-103 (NORAD 66045)
- QIANFAN-98 (NORAD 66040)
- QIANFAN-104 (NORAD 66046)
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