Payload
JB-3 1 (ZY 2A)
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JB-3 1 (ZY 2A) is a China payload satellite, launched on September 1, 2000 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 1, 2000 at 03:25 AM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 4B →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Zi Yuan-2 01 xing
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 145 km
- Periapsis
- 137 km
- Inclination
- 97.14°
- Orbital period
- 87.3 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1,450 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-050A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26481
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China
- Radar cross-section
- 5.0656 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 11, 2016
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 11, 2016
- Time in service
- 15.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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