CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2021-0067
TIANWANG 1C (TW-1C)
TIANWANG 1C (TW-1C) (NORAD 40926) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 February 2021, after 5 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
40926
International designator
2015-051B
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
China
Launched
25 Sep 2015Jiuquan
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Feb 2021UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 5 months1,982 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
83.0°N to 83.0°SFinal inclination 97.0°
Mass
3 kg
Operator
NJUST
Built by
NJUST
Bus
Cubesat 3U
Programme
NJUST
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 97.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 83.0°N and 83.0°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 5 monthsTIANWANG 1C (TW-1C)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2015-051
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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