Payload
SZ-4 MODULE
DecayedPayloadLEO
SZ-4 MODULE is a China payload satellite, launched on December 29, 2002 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- 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
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 153 km
- Periapsis
- 133 km
- Inclination
- 42.41°
- Orbital period
- 87.36 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1,700 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-061C
- NORAD catalog №
- 27634
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 3.981 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 9, 2003
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 9, 2003
- Time in service
- 254 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed