ZHONGXING-9
Launch
Launched on Jun 9, 2008 from Launch Complex 2 (LC-2), China aboard a Long March 3B.
Long March 3B | Zhongxing 9 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 22:14 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corporation
Country
China
Manufacturer
Alcatel Alenia Space
Launched
Jun 9, 2008
Mass
4,500 kg
Apogee
36,243 km
Perigee
36,142 km
Inclination
1.27°
Period
1.01 d
Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
ChinaSat 9, also known as ZX-9, is a Chinese communications satellite.
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Apogee and perigee for ZHONGXING-9 across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Raising
Change
+398.1 km
Rate
+2.69 km/day
Now
36142 × 36243 km
Apogee Perigee
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
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