Satellite · NORAD 40899 · COSPAR 2015-049A
OBJECT A
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
97.40°
Period
87.3 min
87.3 min
Perigee
132km
Apogee
145km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 30 Mar 2025.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 30 Mar 2025 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- OBJECT ACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 19 Sept 2015
- COSPAR launch id
- 2015-049
- Launch site
- Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 14
- NUDT-PHONESAT40900PayloadDecayed
- ZDPS 2A40901PayloadDecayed
- ZDPS 2B40902PayloadDecayed
- XW-2A40903PayloadDecayed
- KAITUO 1A40904PayloadDecayed
- OBJECT G40905PayloadUnknown
- XW-2C40906PayloadDecayed
- XW-2D40907PayloadDecayed
- LILACSAT-240908PayloadActive
- XW-2E40909PayloadDecayed
- XW-2F40910PayloadDecayed
- XW-2B40911PayloadDecayed
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
Transparency
Sources & provenance
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
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 40899
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2015-049A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JTMGRTQ0TD3R9F2BB86
- Canonical slug
- object-a-40899
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.