Payload
DOUBLESTAR TC-1
DecayedPayloadMEO
DOUBLESTAR TC-1 is a China payload satellite, launched on December 29, 2003 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 29, 2003 at 07:06 PM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 2C/SM →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Tan Ce 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 11,947 km
- Periapsis
- 92 km
- Inclination
- 18.86°
- Orbital period
- 228.96 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 350 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-061A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28140
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 1.2619 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 14, 2007
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 14, 2007
- Time in service
- 3.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed