Human Spaceflight
SHENZHOU-4 (SZ-4)
DecayedHuman SpaceflightLEONORAD 27630
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 date
- December 29, 2002 at 04:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shenzhou-4
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 337 km
- Periapsis
- 331 km
- Inclination
- 42.41°
- Orbital period
- 91.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 8,400 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø3.2 × 10 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-061A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27630
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 12.5892 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 5, 2003
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 5, 2003
- Time in service
- 7 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed