Payload
SJ-8
DecayedPayloadLEO
SJ-8 is a China payload satellite, launched on September 9, 2006 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 9, 2006 at 07:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2C →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shi Jian 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 140 km
- Periapsis
- 125 km
- Inclination
- 62.97°
- Orbital period
- 87.13 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 2,350 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-035A
- NORAD catalog №
- 29385
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 1.9784 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 1, 2006
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 1, 2006
- Time in service
- 53 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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