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Debris object · NORAD 28481 · COSPAR 2004-046C

CZ-2C DEB

InactiveDebrisLEODebris derived
  • Operator People's Republic of China
  • Constellation —
  • Country China

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.02°

Period

99.0 min

99.0 min

Perigee

643km

Apogee

779km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
Debris
Object type
Debris
Radar cross-section
0.1 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • CZ-2C DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
PRC · People's Republic of China
Country
China CN

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
18 Nov 2004
COSPAR launch id
2004-046
Launch site
Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 6

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
28481
COSPAR / international designator
2004-046C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQSMGYQFBJ3986JRYAC
Canonical slug
cz-2c-deb-28481

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.