CHINASAT 16 (SJ-13)
NORAD 42662 · 2017-018A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- PRC
- Launch date
- 2017-04-12
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 12.37
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-10T00:50:33.625824Z
- Period
- 1,436.15 min
- Inclination
- 0.0802°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007141
- Mean motion
- 1.00268101 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,757.5 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,817.7 km
- Semi-major
- 42,165.8 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 91.6616°
- Arg perigee
- 138.7310°
- Mean anomaly
- 241.8472°
- Rev number
- 3,460
§ Raw data
CHINASAT 16 (SJ-13)1 42662U 17018A 26253.03511141 -.00000372 00000+0 00000+0 0 99922 42662 0.0802 91.6616 0007141 138.7310 241.8472 1.00268101 34607
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/42662 · /tle
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