Payload
HEAD-1
OperationalPayloadLEO
HEAD-1 is a HEAD Aerospace payload satellite, launched on November 14, 2017 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 14, 2017 at 06:35 PM UTC
- Launch site
- TAISC
- Launched by
- Long March 4C →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Fengyun-3D
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 803 km
- Periapsis
- 788 km
- Inclination
- 98.96°
- Orbital period
- 100.78 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- HEAD Aerospace
- Manufacturer
- Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST)
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 45 kg
- Design lifetime
- 3 years
- Detailed purpose
- Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2017-072B
- NORAD catalog №
- 43011
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Operational
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