Payload
SZ-6 MODULE
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SZ-6 MODULE is a China payload satellite, launched on October 12, 2005 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 12, 2005 at 01:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shenzhou-6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 136 km
- Periapsis
- 131 km
- Inclination
- 42.39°
- Orbital period
- 87.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1,700 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2005-040E
- NORAD catalog №
- 28883
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 5.0238 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 1, 2008
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 1, 2008
- Time in service
- 2.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed