Payload
FSW-1 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
FSW-1 2 is a China payload satellite, launched on August 5, 1988 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 5, 1988 at 07:28 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2C →
- Operator
- Ministry of Aerospace Industry
- Mission
- FSW-1 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 297 km
- Periapsis
- 204 km
- Inclination
- 63.02°
- Orbital period
- 89.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 800 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1988-067A
- NORAD catalog №
- 19368
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 3.53 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 13, 1988
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 13, 1988
- Time in service
- 8 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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