Payload
XW-2C
DecayedPayloadLEO
XW-2C is a Chinese Amateur Satellite (CAMSAT) payload satellite, launched on September 19, 2015 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 19, 2015 at 11:01 PM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 6 →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 181 km
- Periapsis
- 173 km
- Inclination
- 97.43°
- Orbital period
- 88.02 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Chinese Amateur Satellite (CAMSAT)
- Manufacturer
- DFH Satellite Co. Ltd./CAMSAT
- Users
- Civil
- Launch mass
- 10 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-049H
- NORAD catalog №
- 40906
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.071 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 17, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 17, 2025
- Time in service
- 9.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed