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Satellite · NORAD 20788 · COSPAR 1990-081A

FENGYUN 1B

UnknownPayloadLEOWeather derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.98°

Period

102.6 min

102.6 min

Perigee

870km

Apogee

895km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
Weather
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
2.6 m²
Constellation membership derived
Fengyun via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • FENGYUN 1BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
China National Space Administration
SATCAT owner code
PRC · People's Republic of China
Country
China CN

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
03 Sept 1990
COSPAR launch id
1990-081
Launch site
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 1990-081 →

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
20788
COSPAR / international designator
1990-081A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPFZ9DAD0HC7HJV005C
Canonical slug
fengyun-1b-20788

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Weather) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.