Payload
SJ-1
DecayedPayloadLEO
SJ-1 is a China payload satellite, launched on March 3, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 3, 1971 at 12:02 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 1 →
- Operator
- Seventh Ministry of Machine Building Industry
- Mission
- Shijian 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 162 km
- Periapsis
- 140 km
- Inclination
- 69.79°
- Orbital period
- 87.5 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 219.03 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-018A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5007
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 0.8998 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 17, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 17, 1979
- Time in service
- 8.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed