Payload
HUANJING 1C (HJ-1C)
DecayedPayloadLEO
HUANJING 1C (HJ-1C) is a China payload satellite, launched on November 18, 2012 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 18, 2012 at 10:53 PM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 2C →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 130 km
- Periapsis
- 120 km
- Inclination
- 97.01°
- Orbital period
- 86.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 890 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-064A
- NORAD catalog №
- 38997
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 7.657 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 1, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 1, 2023
- Time in service
- 10.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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