Payload
TIANTUO 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
TIANTUO 1 is a China payload satellite, launched on May 10, 2012 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 10, 2012 at 07:06 AM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 4B →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 178 km
- Periapsis
- 166 km
- Inclination
- 97.31°
- Orbital period
- 87.93 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 9 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-021B
- NORAD catalog №
- 38258
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.178 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 3, 2014
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 3, 2014
- Time in service
- 2.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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