Payload
FSW-0 5
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 14288
FSW-0 5 is a China payload satellite, launched on August 19, 1983 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 19, 1983 at 06:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2C →
- Operator
- Ministry of Space Industry
- Mission
- FSW-0 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 153 km
- Periapsis
- 125 km
- Inclination
- 63.29°
- Orbital period
- 87.27 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1,840 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.6 × 2.2 × 2.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-086A
- NORAD catalog №
- 14288
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 21.27 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 3, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 3, 1983
- Time in service
- 15 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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