Catalogued object · NORAD 100711 · COSPAR 2026-211K
QIANFAN 16 OBJECT K
- Operator Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST)
- Constellation Qianfan (Thousand Sails / SpaceSail)
- Country China
Altitude now
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no element set
Velocity
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Inclination
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Perigee
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Apogee
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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 15 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Unknown
- Radar cross-section
- —
- Constellation membership derived
- Qianfan (Thousand Sails / SpaceSail) via name_pattern
Ownership
Operator & country
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 17 Sept 2026
- COSPAR launch id
- 2026-211
- Launch site
- Yellow Sea Launch Area (sea launch)
Objects from the same launch · 9
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT A100702PayloadActive
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT B100703PayloadActive
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT C100704PayloadActive
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT D100705PayloadActive
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT E100706PayloadActive
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT F100707PayloadActive
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT G100708PayloadActive
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT H100709PayloadActive
- QIANFAN 16 OBJECT J100710Rocket bodyInactive
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 18 Sept 2026 19:08 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 100711
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2026-211K
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M2TYPF0CX3W43187R5ERFDF7
- Canonical slug
- qianfan-16-object-k-100711
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.