Payload
BY70-1
DecayedPayloadLEO
BY70-1 is a China payload satellite, launched on December 28, 2016 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 28, 2016 at 03:23 AM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Gaojing-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 150 km
- Periapsis
- 113 km
- Inclination
- 97.56°
- Orbital period
- 87.12 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 10 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-083C
- NORAD catalog №
- 41909
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.0502 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 18, 2017
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 18, 2017
- Time in service
- 52 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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