Payload
SILU-1 (SILKROAD 1)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 42903
SILU-1 (SILKROAD 1) is a China payload satellite, launched on April 20, 2017 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 20, 2017 at 11:41 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Wenchang, China
- Launched by
- Long March 7 →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Tianzhou-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 200 km
- Periapsis
- 185 km
- Inclination
- 42.76°
- Orbital period
- 88.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2017-021F
- NORAD catalog №
- 42903
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 11, 2019
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 11, 2019
- Time in service
- 2.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed