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Rocket body · NORAD 25355 · COSPAR 1998-033B

CZ-3B R/B

DecayedRocket bodyHEORocket body derived
  • Operator People's Republic of China
  • Constellation —
  • Country China

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

22.44°

Period

1.2 d

1,713.1 min

Perigee

153km

Apogee

81,942km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 11 Oct 1998.· Metadata updated 13 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 11 Oct 1998 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
7.9 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • CZ-3B R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
30 May 1998
COSPAR launch id
1998-033
Launch site
Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 1

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
25355
COSPAR / international designator
1998-033B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQ8NATWHF74HXNN5FTA
Canonical slug
cz-3b-r-b-25355

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.