Payload
SPARK 2
OperationalPayloadLEO
SPARK 2 is a Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites payload satellite, launched on December 21, 2016 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 2016 at 07:22 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Tansat (CarbonSat)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 714 km
- Periapsis
- 678 km
- Inclination
- 98.55°
- Orbital period
- 98.69 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites
- Manufacturer
- Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 43 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Hyperspectral Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-081D
- NORAD catalog №
- 41901
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.236 m²
- Status
- Operational
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