Payload
FSW-2 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
FSW-2 3 is a China payload satellite, launched on October 20, 1996 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 20, 1996 at 07:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corporation
- Mission
- Fanhui Shi Weixing (17)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 133 km
- Periapsis
- 121 km
- Inclination
- 63.02°
- Orbital period
- 87.03 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 2,576.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-059A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24634
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 2.0939 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 3, 1996
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 3, 1996
- Time in service
- 44 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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