China's Tiangong space station orbits in the 340–450 km band in low Earth orbit, and this page shows where it is right now. The live Tiangong tracker updates every second with the station's latitude, longitude, altitude, velocity and the region it is passing over, calculated from NORAD two-line element (TLE) orbital data using the SGP4 model.
Tiangong is China's crewed modular space station, built and operated by the China Manned Space Agency. It is a T-shaped complex of three modules — Tianhe, Wentian and Mengtian — permanently crewed since June 2021, tracked here as NORAD catalog object 54216. It circles Earth about every 92 minutes on an orbit inclined 41.5° to the equator. Positions on this page are estimates from orbital propagation, not live telemetry from the station.
The live tracker gives Tiangong's current latitude and longitude — the point on Earth directly beneath the station — alongside its altitude (in the 340–450 km band) and velocity (about 7.68 km/s, roughly 27,600 km/h). The position updates every second, propagated from the current CelesTrak/NORAD orbital elements for catalog object 54216, and the page flags when Tiangong is passing over India.
Tiangong holds an altitude between roughly 340 and 450 km. Atmospheric drag pulls it down measurably at this height, so the station periodically fires its own thrusters or borrows the engines of a docked Tianzhou cargo craft to climb back up. At 7.68 km/s it covers about 4 degrees of longitude a minute, so the live coordinates change visibly.
Tiangong is bright enough to see with the naked eye, appearing as a steady, non-blinking light crossing the sky over several minutes — much like the ISS, usually slightly dimmer. A pass is only visible when the station is above your horizon, sunlit, and your sky is dark. This page computes visible passes for your location over the next 48 hours and says so plainly when there are none.
The 41.5° inclination keeps the ground track between 41.5° north and 41.5° south — a narrower band than the ISS covers, but still across all of India. Earth rotates underneath the orbit, so each 92-minute lap crosses the equator further west and the route looks like a westward-drifting sine wave. The 3D globe view draws the full orbital path.
Tiangong ("Heavenly Palace") masses roughly 66 tonnes across three modules — about one-sixth the mass of the ISS, closer in scale to Russia's old Mir. It normally houses three taikonauts, rising to six briefly during crew handovers, with crews rotating about every six months on Shenzhou spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.