Chuang Xin-1-02 (CX 1 - 02)

Launch data: Designation  33434 / 08056B Launch date  05 Nov 2008 - 00:15 UT Launch site  Jiuquan Launch vehicle  CZ-2D (#F09) Mission  Government: Communications/Technique LEO Sun-Synchronous Earth orbit on: Perigee / Apogee  786 x 805 km Eccentricity  1.33E-03 Inclination  98.5 deg Period  100.78 min

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• Chuangxin 1-02 is a small communications satellite to relay weather and Earth observation data from other spacecraft. The satellite is the second of its type developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Mission details:

• Collect and relay hydrological and meteorological data and data for disaster relief.
• A Chang Zheng 2D rocket launched two small satellites on Nov 5, 2008: Chuanxin yihao 02 xing (Innovation Satellite no. 1 - 02) and Shiyan Weixing sanhao (Experimental satellite no. 3).
• CX-1-02 was probably built by SIMIT (the Shanghai Inst. of Microsystem and Information Technology) together with the Shanghai Academy of Space Technology, the team that built the first CX-1 satellite launched in 2003.
• The Xinhua news agency reports that CX-1-02 will collect and relay hydrological and meteorological data and data for disaster relief. Mass of CX-1-02 is under 100 kg. The satellites are in a 786 x 804 km x 98.5 deg orbit; a third object in a 308 x 835 km orbit is probably the launch vehicle second stage; it made a perigee-lowering depletion burn at about 0035 UTC, after satellite separation. This may explain why the Yaogan 2 second stage, also a CZ-2D, was never cataloged: it probably made a perigee-lowering burn which caused it to reenter on the first orbit.
• The name of the first satellite is Shijian liuhao 03 zu A xing, or 'Practice Six Group 3 Satellite A'. (In the Chinese news reports, the '6' is written as Chinese characters, but the '03' and the 'A' as Arabic numerals and Roman letters.)
• SJ-6-03A has maneuvered from 579 x 603 km to 565 x 597 km to 585 x 601 km. SJ-6-03B remains in a 582 x 604 km orbit with no significant manuevers. The SJ-6-03's final stage rocket is in a 504 x 703 km orbit and an adapter is in an orbit just below the payloads at 580 x 604 km.

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