Payload
TIANXUN 1 (TX 1)
DecayedPayloadLEO
TIANXUN 1 (TX 1) is a China payload satellite, launched on November 9, 2011 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 9, 2011 at 03:21 AM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 4B →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Yaogan 12 & Tianxun-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 150 km
- Periapsis
- 137 km
- Inclination
- 97.3°
- Orbital period
- 87.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 58 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-066A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37874
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.256 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 7, 2016
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 7, 2016
- Time in service
- 4.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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