Rocket body · NORAD 42948 · COSPAR 2017-058D
CZ-2C R/B
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
34.93°
Period
96.9 min
96.9 min
Perigee
567km
Apogee
650km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 14 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
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- CZ-2C R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 29 Sept 2017
- COSPAR launch id
- 2017-058
- Launch site
- Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 3
- YAOGAN-30 02A42945PayloadActive
- YAOGAN-30 02B42946PayloadActive
- YAOGAN-30 02C42947PayloadActive
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
- 42948
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2017-058D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JTZX0D00E60QR20CF53
- Canonical slug
- cz-2c-r-b-42948
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.