BEIDOU G4

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BEIDOU G4 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 37210

Int'l Code: 2010-057A

Perigee: 35,756.4 km

Apogee: 35,831.7 km

Inclination: 2.2 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42165 km

RCS: 19.9526 m² (large)

Launch date: October 31, 2010
Source: People's Republic of China (PRC)
Launch site: Xichang Space Center, China (XSC)

BEIDOU G4 is the sixth Chinese Beidou navigation satellite Sunday, reaching another step in a program to provide precise positioning services across the Asia-Pacific region by 2012. The Beidou, (Compass) satellite will fire its own engine to reach a circular orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the equator. BEIDOU G4 is the fourth platform designed for geosynchronous orbit over the equator. One satellite is in a medium-altitude orbit more than 13,000 miles (20,900 km) high, and another spacecraft was injected in an inclined orbit to cover Earth's polar regions.

1 37210U 10057A   24305.81262582 -.00000094  00000-0  00000+0 0  9997
2 37210   2.1744  69.9436 0008927 173.5239 249.6685  1.00270567 51336

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC