Satellite · NORAD 28638 · COSPAR 2005-012A
APSTAR-6
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
7.58°
Period
1.0 d
1,460.9 min
Perigee
36,246km
Apogee
36,295km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 31.6 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- APSTAR-6Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 12 Apr 2005
- COSPAR launch id
- 2005-012
- Launch site
- Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 1
- CZ-3B R/B28639Rocket bodyDecayed
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 28638
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2005-012A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQTQ1Z258XRQWN3AEY0
- Canonical slug
- apstar-6-28638
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.