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Class: Communications. Type: Military. Nation: China. Communications satellite.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 941 kg.
STTW Chronology
29 January 1984
China 14 Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-3. FAILURE: Third stage failed to ignite. Mass: 900 kg. Perigee: 484 km. Apogee: 6,446 km. Inclination: 36.1 deg. Payload stranded in LEO.
08 April 1984
China 15 Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-3. Mass: 900 kg. Perigee: 35,733 km. Apogee: 35,796 km. Inclination: 6.1 deg. Stationed at 125 deg E; experimental communications.
01 February 1986
China 18 Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-3. Perigee: 35,773 km. Apogee: 35,807 km. Inclination: 4.7 deg. Stationed at 103 deg E.
07 March 1988
China 22 Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-3. Mass: 900 kg. Perigee: 35,786 km. Apogee: 35,789 km. Inclination: 0.5 deg. Shiyong Tongbu Tongxin Weixing; 88 deg E.
22 December 1988
China 25 Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-3. Mass: 900 kg. Perigee: 35,787 km. Apogee: 35,791 km. Inclination: 0.1 deg. Stationed at 110 deg E.
04 February 1990
China 26 Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-3. Mass: 1,024 kg. Perigee: 35,783 km. Apogee: 35,795 km. Inclination: 0.0 deg. Shiyang Tongbu Tonxin Weixing; 98.5 deg E. National operational communications satellite. Designation 1990-2.
28 December 1991
China 34 Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-3. FAILURE: Third stage failed to ignite. Partial Failure. Mass: 1,025 kg. Perigee: 2,017 km. Apogee: 34,047 km. Inclination: 31.5 deg. Third stage failure; unusable orbit. Operational communications.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
- 279 - McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html
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