Payload
TIANWANG 1A (TW-1A)
DecayedPayloadLEO
TIANWANG 1A (TW-1A) is a China payload satellite, launched on September 25, 2015 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 25, 2015 at 01:41 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 11 →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 171 km
- Periapsis
- 167 km
- Inclination
- 97°
- Orbital period
- 87.87 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1.7 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-051D
- NORAD catalog №
- 40928
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.0579 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 30, 2022
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 30, 2022
- Time in service
- 7.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed