Payload
SZ-8 MODULE
DecayedPayloadLEO
SZ-8 MODULE is a China payload satellite, launched on October 31, 2011 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 31, 2011 at 09:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2F/G →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Shenzhou-8 & Shenzhou-8-GC
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 138 km
- Periapsis
- 138 km
- Inclination
- 42.78°
- Orbital period
- 87.24 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- China
- Launch mass
- 1,842 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-063D
- NORAD catalog №
- 37883
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 3.84 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 2, 2012
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 2, 2012
- Time in service
- 154 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed