Payload
DOUBLESTAR TC-2
NonoperationalPayloadHEONORAD 28382
DOUBLESTAR TC-2 is a China payload satellite, launched on July 25, 2004 into HEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- July 25, 2004 at 07:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 2C/SM →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Tan Ce 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 31,370 km
- Periapsis
- 314 km
- Inclination
- 87.89°
- Orbital period
- 549.39 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 343 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.4 × 2.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2004-029A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28382
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 3.6999 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational