Rocket body · NORAD 41870 · COSPAR 2016-072B
CZ-3C R/B
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
16.87°
Period
4.6 h
278.3 min
Perigee
491km
Apogee
14,993km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 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
- 8.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- CZ-3C R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 22 Nov 2016
- COSPAR launch id
- 2016-072
- Launch site
- Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 1
- TIANLIAN 1-0441869PayloadActive
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
- 41870
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2016-072B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JTSXD94KEX9QRKCNENK
- Canonical slug
- cz-3c-r-b-41870
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.