Payload
FSW-0 8
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A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 6, 1986 at 05:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2C →
- Operator
- Ministry of Space Industry
- Mission
- FSW-0 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 162 km
- Periapsis
- 135 km
- Inclination
- 56.94°
- Orbital period
- 87.46 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1986-076A
- NORAD catalog №
- 17001
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 55.21 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 23, 1986
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 23, 1986
- Time in service
- 17 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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