Payload
QSS (MOZI)
DecayedPayloadLEO
QSS (MOZI) is a University of Science and Technology payload satellite, launched on August 15, 2016 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 15, 2016 at 05:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- QUESS (Micius)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 150 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 97.29°
- Orbital period
- 87.38 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- University of Science and Technology
- Manufacturer
- Chinese Academy of Sciences/Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 640 kg
- Design lifetime
- 2 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 41731
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 2.105 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 25, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 25, 2026
- Time in service
- 9.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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