2023-081W

NORAD 56866· COSPAR 2023-081W· Active satellite· Other / Unclassified· SSO

Launch

Launched on Jun 7, 2023 from Launch Area 130, China aboard a Kinetica 1.

Kinetica 1 | Flight 2 →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 13:59 UTC

Orbit class

SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)

Operator

Chinese Government

Country

China

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Jun 7, 2023

Mass

—

Apogee

501 km

Perigee

484 km

Inclination

97.28°

Period

1.57 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for 2023-081W across 14 days of archived orbital elements (15 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Stable

Change

-0.5 km

Rate

-0.03 km/day

Now

484 × 501 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.

Launched with

One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 2023-081 (Kinetica 1 | Flight 2).

2023-081A · 56846

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