Payload
FSW-2 2
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 23145
FSW-2 2 is a China payload satellite, launched on July 3, 1994 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- July 3, 1994 at 08:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corporation
- Mission
- Fanhui Shi Weixing (16)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 142 km
- Periapsis
- 111 km
- Inclination
- 62.93°
- Orbital period
- 87.02 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 2,735.38 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.2 × 4.64 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1994-037A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23145
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 3.9933 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 13, 1994
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 13, 1994
- Time in service
- 72 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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