Payload
Q-SAT
DecayedPayloadLEO
Q-SAT is a Tsinghua University payload satellite, launched on August 6, 2020 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 6, 2020 at 04:01 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Gaofen-9-04
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 170 km
- Periapsis
- 150 km
- Inclination
- 97.31°
- Orbital period
- 87.69 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Tsinghua University
- Manufacturer
- Tsinghua University
- Users
- Civil
- Launch mass
- 100 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-054B
- NORAD catalog №
- 46026
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 11, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 11, 2024
- Time in service
- 3.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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