| 天眼卫星 Tiānyǎn Wèixīng | |
| Program overview | |
|---|---|
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Purpose | Reconnaissance |
| Status | Active |
| Program history | |
| First flight | 20 December 2019 |
| Successes | 3 |
| Failures | 0 |
| Launch site(s) | TSLC |
| Vehicle information | |
| Launch vehicle(s) | |
Tianyan (Chinese: 天眼; pinyin: Tiānyǎn; lit. 'Sky/Heaven Eye'), often translated into English as SkyEye or Eye in the Sky, is a reconnaissance satellite program of the People's Republic of China. To date, the Tianyan satellite program has launched one satellite from the Yizheng class (Yizheng-1) and two satellites from the Xingshidai class (Xingshidai-8 and 12).
The name Tianyan (天眼) in Chinese can also refer to CCTV cameras, concept of the third eye ('divine eye' in Chinese Buddhism), clairvoyance, a 2005 cartoon, 2015 British thriller film Eye in the Sky, or the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) — a ground-based radio telescope in Guizhou Province nicknamed Tianyan.