Mission type | Remote sensing |
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Operator | CNSA / INPE[1] |
Website | China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program |
Mission duration | 3 years planned[2] Launch failure |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | CBERS |
Bus | Phoenix-Eye 1[1] |
Launch mass | 1,980 kilograms (4,370 pounds)[2] |
Power | 2,300 watts[2] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 9 December 2013, 03:26 | UTC
Rocket | Chang Zheng 4B |
Launch site | Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center LC-9 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Sun-synchronous |
Eccentricity | 0.0 |
Perigee altitude | 1,252 kilometers (778 miles) |
Apogee altitude | 1,252 km (778 mi) |
Inclination | 98.5 degrees |
Period | 100.0 minutes |
Epoch | Planned |
China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite 3 (CBERS-3), also known as Ziyuan I-03 or Ziyuan 1D, was a remote sensing satellite intended for operation as part of the China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program between the Chinese Center for Resources Satellite Data and Application and Brazilian National Institute for Space Research.[1] The fourth CBERS satellite to fly, it was lost in a launch failure in December 2013.