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: 2026-09-27T18:48:11.659392Z
- Period
- 1,436.04 min
- Inclination
- 0.0879°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007270
- Mean motion
- 1.00275551 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,754.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,816.2 km
- Semi-major
- 42,163.7 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 88.5343°
- Arg perigee
- 140.5946°
- Mean anomaly
- 170.0421°
- Rev number
- 3,477
§ Raw data
CHINASAT 16 (SJ-13)1 42662U 17018A 26270.78346828 -.00000347 00000+0 00000+0 0 99932 42662 0.0879 88.5343 0007270 140.5946 170.0421 1.00275551 34774
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/42662 · /tle
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