Catalogued object · NORAD 48250 · COSPAR 2021-033C
OBJECT C
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
7.24°
Period
2.6 h
155.8 min
Perigee
355km
Apogee
6,074km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 09 Feb 2024.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 09 Feb 2024 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Unknown
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- OBJECT CCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 27 Apr 2021
- COSPAR launch id
- 2021-033
- Launch site
- Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 9
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
- 48250
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2021-033C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JVP7GTXQDFMCVZGJ8ST
- Canonical slug
- object-c-48250
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.