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Satellite · NORAD 40904 · COSPAR 2015-049F

KAITUO 1A

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

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

97.44°

Period

87.4 min

87.4 min

Perigee

139km

Apogee

149km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 12 Nov 2024.· Metadata updated 17 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 12 Nov 2024 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

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

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • KAITUO 1ACelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
19 Sept 2015
COSPAR launch id
2015-049
Launch site
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 14

All objects from launch 2015-049 →

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
40904
COSPAR / international designator
2015-049F
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTMGRTQ0TD3R9F2BB8B
Canonical slug
kaituo-1a-40904

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.