DEBRIS
FENGYUN 1C DEB
Anti-Satellite Test Debris · China
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A piece of Fengyun-1C, the Chinese weather satellite China destroyed with its own anti-satellite missile on January 11, 2007. The satellite was circling about 537 miles up when the missile hit, and the impact knocked this fragment into an oval orbit that now dips to about 440 miles and climbs to about 635. Every piece of the satellite started out in the same orbit, but each one's orbit swings around Earth at its own slightly different rate. Nineteen years on, the debris has spread into a shell around the whole planet. This fragment's orbit has turned about 60° away from the orbit of what's left of the satellite, which is still up there too.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 443–638 mi (714–1,026 km)
- Inclination
- 98.7°
- One orbit
- 102.2 minutes14.1 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 31757
- Int’l designator
- 1999-025CFG
- Launched
- 1999
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 6 Nov 2026.
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