Payload
CHANGSHAGAOXIN (TY 4-01)
DecayedPayloadLEO
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the second half of the year 2018. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2018 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2018, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2018. For launches in 2019, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2019.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 29, 2018 at 12:43 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2C →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- CFOSAT
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 166 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- Orbital period
- 87.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Spacety Aerospace Company
- Manufacturer
- Tianyi Research Institute
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 8 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-083H
- NORAD catalog №
- 43669
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 10, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 10, 2024
- Time in service
- 5.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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