Debris object · NORAD 28046 · COSPAR 2003-045D
CZ-2F DEB
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
42.54°
Period
89.8 min
89.8 min
Perigee
179km
Apogee
352km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 16 Oct 2003.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 16 Oct 2003 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- CZ-2F DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 15 Oct 2003
- COSPAR launch id
- 2003-045
- Launch site
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 6
- CZ-2F DEB28045DebrisDecayed
- CZ-2F DEB28047DebrisDecayed
- CZ-2F DEB28048DebrisDecayed
- SHENZHOU-5 (SZ-5)28043PayloadDecayed
- SZ-5 MODULE28049PayloadDecayed
- CZ-2F R/B28044Rocket 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
- 28046
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2003-045D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQQ3JS2VT7FC1JS6D7C
- Canonical slug
- cz-2f-deb-28046
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.