Rocket body · NORAD 12846 · COSPAR 1981-093E
CZ-2B R/B
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
59.39°
Period
87.4 min
87.4 min
Perigee
133km
Apogee
162km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 10 Apr 1983.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 10 Apr 1983 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 19.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- CZ-2B R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 19 Sept 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-093
- Launch site
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 9
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
- 12846
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-093E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN3K8TJJ4HEYXYF75XR
- Canonical slug
- cz-2b-r-b-12846
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.