Payload
FSW-0 2
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 9587
FSW-0 2 is a China payload satellite, launched on December 7, 1976 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 7, 1976 at 04:38 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2A →
- Operator
- Seventh Ministry of Machine Building Industry
- Mission
- FSW-0 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 196 km
- Periapsis
- 146 km
- Inclination
- 59.43°
- Orbital period
- 87.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1,790 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.6 × 2.2 × 2.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-117A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9587
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 2, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 2, 1977
- Time in service
- 26 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed