YAOGAN 8
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About This Satellite
YAOGAN 8 is a cataloged satellite tracked under NORAD ID 36121 with international designator 09072A. According to the GCAT master catalog, it was built by SAST, on the JB-9 platform, with a launch mass of about 1040 kg, with a shape described as Box + 2 Pan. According to the TLE snapshot used when this page was generated (2026-08-18), its LEO orbit had an apogee of about 1.265 km and a perigee near 1.234 km, with an inclination of 100.21° and a period of roughly 110.3 minutes; at apogee its speed was about 7.22 km/s. Positions on this page are near-real-time SGP4 predictions propagated from the latest two-line element (TLE) data.
In the TLE snapshot used to generate this page, YAOGAN 8's apogee was 1.265 km, where its speed was about 7.22 km/s, completing about 13.1 orbits of Earth per day. Track it live on the map above or in the JOT orbital map.