Payload
SJ-2A
DecayedPayloadLEO
SJ-2A is a China payload satellite, launched on September 19, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 19, 1981 at 09:28 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Feng Bao 1 →
- Operator
- Seventh Ministry of Machine Building Industry
- Mission
- Shi Jian 2, 2A, 2B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 173 km
- Periapsis
- 137 km
- Inclination
- 59.37°
- Orbital period
- 87.59 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 478.69 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-093B
- NORAD catalog №
- 12843
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 13.43 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 6, 1982
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 6, 1982
- Time in service
- 1.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed