BEIDOU G4

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BEIDOU G4 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 37210

Int'l Code: 2010-057A

Perigee: 35,769.5 km

Apogee: 35,817.6 km

Inclination: 0.9 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42164 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   21020.87094432 -.00000104  00000-0  00000-0 0  9994
2 37210   0.8825  50.8454 0005707 188.4364 354.7605  1.00272475 37498

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC