Payload
FSW-1 4
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 22162
FSW-1 4 is a China payload satellite, launched on October 6, 1992 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 6, 1992 at 06:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2C →
- Operator
- Ministry of Aerospace Industry
- Mission
- FSW-1 4 & Freja
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 146 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 62.99°
- Orbital period
- 87.34 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 2,060 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.6 × 2.2 × 2.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1992-064B
- NORAD catalog №
- 22162
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 2.5 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 31, 1992
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 31, 1992
- Time in service
- 25 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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