Payload
SZ-3 MODULE
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SZ-3 MODULE is a China payload satellite, launched on March 25, 2002 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 25, 2002 at 02:15 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shenzhou-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 169 km
- Periapsis
- 164 km
- Inclination
- 42.4°
- Orbital period
- 87.83 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1,700 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-014C
- NORAD catalog №
- 27408
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 1.2589 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 12, 2002
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 12, 2002
- Time in service
- 232 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed