Debris object · NORAD 28442 · COSPAR 2002-049F
CZ-4B DEB
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
97.18°
Period
89.8 min
89.8 min
Perigee
258km
Apogee
270km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 31 Mar 2010.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 31 Mar 2010 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- CZ-4B DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 27 Oct 2002
- COSPAR launch id
- 2002-049
- Launch site
- Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 5
- CZ-4B DEB28439DebrisDecayed
- CZ-4B DEB28440DebrisDecayed
- CZ-4B DEB28441DebrisDecayed
- JB-3 2 (ZY 2B)27550PayloadDecayed
- CZ-4B R/B27551Rocket 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
- 28442
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2002-049F
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQSMGYQFBJ3986JRY98
- Canonical slug
- cz-4b-deb-28442
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.