BEIDOU-3S IGSO-2S (C56)
NORAD 40938 · 2015-053A
PAYLOAD INACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- PRC
- Launch date
- 2015-09-29
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 61.22
Purposes: comms, nav
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-26T21:15:24.487776Z
- Period
- 1,435.96 min
- Inclination
- 49.0733°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0065655
- Mean motion
- 1.00281235 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,507.1 km
- Apogee alt
- 36,060.8 km
- Semi-major
- 42,162.1 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 257.5633°
- Arg perigee
- 192.4685°
- Mean anomaly
- 330.7000°
- Rev number
- 4,037
§ Raw data
BEIDOU-3S IGSO-2S (C56)1 40938U 15053A 26269.88570009 -.00000130 00000+0 00000+0 0 99932 40938 49.0733 257.5633 0065655 192.4685 330.7000 1.00281235 40374
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/40938 · /tle
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