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HULIANWANG DIGUI-165
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HULIANWANG DIGUI-165

launched 2026low orbitNORAD 68657 · 2026-076B

Height
1,179.8 km
From center
7,537.1 km
Sunlight
Sunlit
Speed
7.271 km/s
Ground speed
6.105 km/s
Over
80.447° N, 36.898° W

Passes

Technical details

Mean elements

Elements are 13 hours old, from CelesTrak GP data (groups: active), fetched 3 h ago.How accurate is this?

Perigee
1,163 km
Apogee
1,167 km
Period
108.67 min
Inclination
86.50°
Eccentricity
0.0002247
Semi-major axis
7,543.2 km
Epoch
2026-11-15T10:36:51Z

Orbit check

The live speed and distance fit this orbit to within 0.11%.

Vis-viva: v²r/GM = 0.9997 and 2 − r/a = 1.0008

Raw elements

2LE

1 68657U 26076B   26319.44226644  .00000041  00000+0  62108-4 0  9991
2 68657  86.5015 352.8809 0002247  98.9602 261.1787 13.24412807 29390

3LE

HULIANWANG DIGUI-165
1 68657U 26076B   26319.44226644  .00000041  00000+0  62108-4 0  9991
2 68657  86.5015 352.8809 0002247  98.9602 261.1787 13.24412807 29390

OMM

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "HULIANWANG DIGUI-165",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2026-076B",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-15T10:36:51.820416",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 13.24412807,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0002247,
  "INCLINATION": 86.5015,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 352.8809,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 98.9602,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 261.1787,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 68657,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 2939,
  "BSTAR": 0.000062108,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 4.1e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}

How we compute these

Altitude
Height above the WGS84 ellipsoid, the standard model of Earth's shape, straight below the satellite.
Speed
The length of SGP4's velocity vector in the TEME frame: the inertial speed. It is not the speed over the ground.
Ground speed
How fast the point below the satellite moves across Earth's surface, with Earth's rotation taken out.
From Earth's center
Distance from Earth's center, from SGP4's position.
Latitude and longitude
The point on the WGS84 ellipsoid straight below the satellite, from SGP4's position turned into Earth-fixed coordinates.
Sunlight
How much sunlight reaches the satellite past Earth and its atmosphere. Light grazing Earth is dimmed by air and ozone, bent into the shadow by refraction, and blocked below 10 km (clouds and haze); the Sun's disc is darker at its edge. So the satellite fades over a few seconds in low orbit and a couple of minutes in geostationary orbit, reddening as it goes, rather than switching off. The atmosphere is a clear standard one: haze from a large volcanic eruption can make the real fade come a few seconds early.
Orbit check (vis-viva)
v²r/GM uses the live speed and distance above, with GM = 398,600.4418 km³/s². Vis-viva says it equals 2 − r/a, where a is the mean semi-major axis. They agree as closely as SGP4's mean elements allow, usually within 1%.
Mean elements
Perigee, apogee, period, eccentricity, inclination and semi-major axis are mean elements from the published set, not instantaneous values. Perigee and apogee heights are above Earth's equatorial radius (6,378 km).
Epoch
The epoch is the moment the element set describes. Positions get less accurate the further you are from it.
How accurate is this?
Positions are predictions from the published elements, not live tracking. Through SGP4 they are usually within a kilometre or two near the epoch and drift by a few km a day after it, more for low or manoeuvring satellites. The map shows ground positions, the point straight below the satellite, so dots that look close can be thousands of km apart in height. Good for passes and tracks; not for judging close approaches between objects.
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