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Fengyun 1C
Chinese weather satellite, destroyed in an anti-satellite test in 2007. Fengyun 1C was launched on May 10, 1999 aboard a Chang Zheng 4B from Taiyuan. Latest status in GCAT: collided (Jan 11, 2007).
COSPAR 1999-025ANORAD 25730China
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Feng Yun 1C
- Common name
- Fengyun 1C
- Payload designation
- FY-1 03 xing
- Other names
- FY-1C
- International designator
- 1999-025A
- NORAD catalog number
- 25730
- GCAT identifier
- S25730
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/359
Mission
- Mission type
- Optical imaging
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- FY-1
- Owner
- CNMSC
- Country
- China
- Builder
- Shanghai Inst. of Satellite Engineering (509 Res.Inst.)
- Platform (bus)
- FY-1
Launch
- Date
- May 10, 1999 · 01:33 UTC
- Launch record
- 1999-025Success
- Rocket
- Chang Zheng 4B
- Spaceport
- Taiyuan · pad LC7
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LEO/S
- Perigee
- 849 km
- Apogee
- 867 km
- Inclination
- 98.79°
- Status
- Collided
- Status date
- January 11, 2007
- Last known active
- January 2007
- End of operations
- Apr 26, 2004
Size
- Mass
- 958 kg
- Dry mass
- 958 kg
- Length
- 1.4 m
- Diameter
- 1.40 m
- Span
- 8.6 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q7468742 (CC0).