Payload
KUAIZHOU 2 (KZ-2)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 40311
KUAIZHOU 2 (KZ-2) is a China payload satellite, launched on November 21, 2014 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 21, 2014 at 06:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Kuaizhou →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 156 km
- Periapsis
- 141 km
- Inclination
- 96.46°
- Orbital period
- 87.46 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 460 kg
- Dimensions
- 1 m span
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2014-073A
- NORAD catalog №
- 40311
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 2.0719 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 9, 2016
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 9, 2016
- Time in service
- 1.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed