Payload
HEAD-4
DecayedPayloadLEO
HEAD-4 is a HEAD Aerospace payload satellite, launched on May 31, 2020 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 31, 2020 at 08:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Gaofen-9-02
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 148 km
- Periapsis
- 136 km
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 87.33 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- HEAD Aerospace
- Manufacturer
- HEAD Aerospace
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 45 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-034A
- NORAD catalog №
- 45624
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 14, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 14, 2024
- Time in service
- 3.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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