Payload
LQSAT
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
LQSAT is a Changchun Institute of Optics payload satellite, launched on October 7, 2015 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 7, 2015 at 04:13 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Jilin-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 650 km
- Periapsis
- 629 km
- Inclination
- 97.67°
- Orbital period
- 97.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Changchun Institute of Optics
- Manufacturer
- USA
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 54 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Technology Development
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 40958
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.3394 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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