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Rocket body · NORAD 38048 · COSPAR 2012-001C

CZ-4B R/B

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

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

97.57°

Period

87.1 min

87.1 min

Perigee

125km

Apogee

141km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 07 Mar 2012.· Metadata updated 13 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 07 Mar 2012 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
9.3 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • CZ-4B 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
09 Jan 2012
COSPAR launch id
2012-001
Launch site
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 6

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
38048
COSPAR / international designator
2012-001C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JSF78H42G2JY2SB8QY0
Canonical slug
cz-4b-r-b-38048

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.