Payload
BANXING-2
DecayedPayloadLEO
BANXING-2 is a China payload satellite, launched on September 15, 2016 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 15, 2016 at 02:04 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F/G →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Tiangong-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 129 km
- Periapsis
- 113 km
- Inclination
- 42.74°
- Orbital period
- 86.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 47 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-057H
- NORAD catalog №
- 41834
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.216 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 15, 2019
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 15, 2019
- Time in service
- 2.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed