Payload
FSW-3 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
FSW-3 1 is a China payload satellite, launched on November 3, 2003 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 3, 2003 at 07:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Fanhui Shi Weixing (18)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 165 km
- Periapsis
- 141 km
- Inclination
- 62.97°
- Orbital period
- 87.55 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 3,090 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28078
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 1.5848 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 18, 2003
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 18, 2003
- Time in service
- 45 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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