Satellite · NORAD 28883 · COSPAR 2005-040E
SZ-6 MODULE
- Operator People's Republic of China
- Constellation —
- Country China
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
42.39°
Period
87.2 min
87.2 min
Perigee
131km
Apogee
136km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 01 Apr 2008.· Metadata updated 12 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 01 Apr 2008 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 5.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- SZ-6 MODULECelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- PRC · People's Republic of China
- Country
- China CN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 12 Oct 2005
- COSPAR launch id
- 2005-040
- Launch site
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
Objects from the same launch · 4
- CZ-2F DEB28881DebrisDecayed
- CZ-2F DEB28882DebrisDecayed
- SHENZHOU-6 (SZ-6)28879PayloadDecayed
- CZ-2F R/B28880Rocket 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
- 28883
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2005-040E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQV2CRQ4ZEJ4NRBM9YT
- Canonical slug
- sz-6-module-28883
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.