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Debris object · NORAD 43422 · COSPAR 2015-030C

GAOFEN-8 DEB

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

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

97.51°

Period

90.4 min

90.4 min

Perigee

292km

Apogee

296km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 31 Jan 2024.· Metadata updated 12 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 31 Jan 2024 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Debris
Object type
Debris
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • GAOFEN-8 DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
26 Jun 2015
COSPAR launch id
2015-030
Launch site
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 3

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
43422
COSPAR / international designator
2015-030C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JV153PK9Y0R38H9PS8D
Canonical slug
gaofen-8-deb-43422

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.