Payload
OBJECT C
DecayedPayloadLEO
OBJECT C is a Xiamen University/Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co. Ltd. {CASC) payload satellite, launched on June 11, 2021 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 11, 2021 at 03:03 AM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Beijing-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 189 km
- Periapsis
- 176 km
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 88.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Xiamen University/Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co. Ltd. {CASC)
- Manufacturer
- Aerospace Dongfanghong Satellite Co.ÊLtd. (CASC)
- Users
- Government/Civil
- Launch mass
- 50 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2021-050C
- NORAD catalog №
- 48842
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 24, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 24, 2024
- Time in service
- 2.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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