Satellite · NORAD 59591 · COSPAR 2024-078A
SHENZHOU-18 (SZ-18)
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
41.47°
Period
92.4 min
92.4 min
Perigee
390km
Apogee
396km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 03 Nov 2024.· Metadata updated 15 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 03 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
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SHENZHOU-18 (SZ-18)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 25 Apr 2024
- COSPAR launch id
- 2024-078
- Launch site
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 5
- CZ-2F DEB59593DebrisDecayed
- CZ-2F DEB59594DebrisDecayed
- CZ-2F DEB59595DebrisDecayed
- SZ-18 MODULE62077PayloadDecayed
- CZ-2F R/B59592Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 59591
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2024-078A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JWPDA83J8N5TF0WBFZT
- Canonical slug
- shenzhou-18-sz-18-59591
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.