Payload
JB-3 2 (ZY 2B)
DecayedPayloadLEO
JB-3 2 (ZY 2B) is a China payload satellite, launched on October 27, 2002 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 27, 2002 at 03:17 AM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 4B →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Zi Yuan-2 02 xing
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 141 km
- Periapsis
- 134 km
- Inclination
- 97.09°
- Orbital period
- 87.24 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1,450 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-049A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27550
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 4.796 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 22, 2015
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 22, 2015
- Time in service
- 12.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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