Debris object · NORAD 38318 · COSPAR 2012-001E
CZ-4B DEB
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
97.52°
Period
89.5 min
89.5 min
Perigee
238km
Apogee
258km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 21 Apr 2022.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 21 Apr 2022 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
- 09 Jan 2012
- COSPAR launch id
- 2012-001
- Launch site
- Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 6
- CZ-4B DEB38317DebrisDecayed
- CZ-4B DEB38319DebrisDecayed
- CZ-4B DEB38320DebrisDecayed
- ZIYUAN 3-01 (ZY 3-01)38046PayloadDecayed
- VESSELSAT 238047PayloadDecayed
- CZ-4B R/B38048Rocket 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
- 38318
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2012-001E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JT8RSYENADJQVBE4D1T
- Canonical slug
- cz-4b-deb-38318
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.