Human Spaceflight
SHENZHOU-2 (SZ-2)
DecayedHuman SpaceflightLEO
Shenzhou is a Chinese spacecraft developed for the China Manned Space Program. Its design was based on Russia's Soyuz, but larger and modernized. It has conducted 23 flights since 1999, including 17 crewed flights since 2005, the most recent being Shenzhou 23.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 9, 2001 at 05:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shenzhou-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 345 km
- Periapsis
- 330 km
- Inclination
- 42.58°
- Orbital period
- 91.28 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2001-001A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26664
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 19 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 16, 2001
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 16, 2001
- Time in service
- 7 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed