TJS-5

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NORAD ID: 44978

Int'l Code: 2020-002A

Perigee: 35,764.2 km

Apogee: 35,822.8 km

Inclination: 0.1 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42164 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: January 7, 2020
Source: People's Republic of China (PRC)
Launch site: Xichang Space Center, China (XSC)

TJS 5 satellite is the fifth in a line of Chinese missions that have intrigued Western analysts. The first TJS satellite launched in 2015, and the timing and circumstances of the TJS 5 launch suggest a similarity with the deployment of the TJS 5 spacecraft in January 2017. Chinese state television said that TJS 5 satellite will support communications, television broadcast, data transmission and other services. But China’s government-run media apparatus often identifies the owner or end user of the country’s other satellites.

1 44978U 20002A   26140.54310925 -.00000348  00000-0  00000+0 0  9993
2 44978   0.0792 274.5991 0006951 125.1311 141.5169  1.00272621 23434

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC