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Satellite · NORAD 28776 · COSPAR 2005-027A

FSW-3 4

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator People's Republic of China
  • Constellation —
  • Country China

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

62.98°

Period

87.0 min

87.0 min

Perigee

119km

Apogee

135km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 16 Oct 2005.· Metadata updated 16 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 16 Oct 2005 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
4.0 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • FSW-3 4Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
PRC · People's Republic of China
Country
China CN

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
02 Aug 2005
COSPAR launch id
2005-027
Launch site
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 8

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
28776
COSPAR / international designator
2005-027A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQV2CRQ4ZEJ4NRBM9VK
Canonical slug
fsw-3-4-28776

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