Payload
OBJECT C
DecayedPayloadLEO
OBJECT C is a Insight Position Digital Intelligence Technology Service Co., Ltd. payload satellite, launched on October 14, 2021 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 14, 2021 at 10:51 AM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Xihe (CHASE)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 153 km
- Periapsis
- 143 km
- Inclination
- 97.31°
- Orbital period
- 87.45 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Insight Position Digital Intelligence Technology Service Co., Ltd.
- Manufacturer
- Insight Position Digital Intelligence Technology Service Co., Ltd.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 50 kg
- Dry mass
- 50 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2021-091C
- NORAD catalog №
- 49317
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 25, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 25, 2026
- Time in service
- 4.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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