SHENZHOU-8 (SZ-8)
NORAD 37859 · Payload · Reentered 2011-11-17
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2011-10-31 · Jiuquan, China
- Country / operator
- PRC (China)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space station mission
- Mass
- 3,240 kg
- Size
- 9.3 × 3.2 m · 17 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 333 × 336 km
- Inclination
- 42.8°
- Period
- 91.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.