Payload
BX-1
DecayedPayloadLEO
BX-1 is a China payload satellite, launched on September 25, 2008 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 25, 2008 at 01:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shenzhou-7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 148 km
- Periapsis
- 144 km
- Inclination
- 42.39°
- Orbital period
- 87.41 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 40 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-047G
- NORAD catalog №
- 33392
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.2615 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 29, 2009
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 29, 2009
- Time in service
- 1.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed