FENGYUN 1C DEB
NORAD 37422· Debris· SSO
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-16 02:41 UTC
Orbit class
SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)
Operator
China Meteorological Administration
Country
China
Manufacturer
Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology
Launched
—
Mass
—
Apogee
751 km
Perigee
713 km
Inclination
98.86°
Period
1.65 h
Debris origin · anti-satellite test
On 11 January 2007, China destroyed its own defunct Fengyun-1C weather satellite with a ground-launched anti-satellite missile at about 865 km altitude. The impact created more than 3,000 catalogued fragments — the single largest debris-generating event in the history of spaceflight. Because the collision happened so high, a large fraction of the debris will remain in orbit for decades to centuries.
Parent object
Fengyun-1C
Event date
Jan 11, 2007
Altitude
~865 km
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for FENGYUN 1C DEB across 51 days of archived orbital elements (52 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-2.1 km
Rate
-0.04 km/day
Now
713 × 751 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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