Payload
OBJECT C
DecayedPayloadLEO
OBJECT C is a China payload satellite, launched on May 21, 2023 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 21, 2023 at 08:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2C →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- MUST-1A/B & Luojia-2 01
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 151 km
- Periapsis
- 144 km
- Inclination
- 40.98°
- Orbital period
- 87.44 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 353 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2023-069C
- NORAD catalog №
- 56733
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 24, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 24, 2025
- Time in service
- 1.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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