SkyLoverAbout Ningxia-1 01
Heaviest satellite launched by Ningxia Jingui Information Technology Co. Ltd. into space at 100 kg
A commercial satellite, Ningxia-1 01 is operated by Ningxia Jingui Information Technology Co. Ltd. of China for the purpose of earth observation.
Delivered via Long March 6 (launch vehicle) from Taiyuan Launch Center, it was launched into space on 13 November 2019 and orbits the Earth as a non-polar inclined LEO satellite. Ningxia-1 01 was constructed by DFH Satellite Co. Ltd. (China).
Ningxia-1 01 has a launch mass of 100 kg and orbits around the Earth with the COSPAR ID 2019-076A and NORAD ID 44779.
Taking 103 minutes to orbit the Earth, the satellite's perigee, which is the point of the orbit closest to the Earth's center of mass, is 887km while its apogee, which is the point of the orbit farthest from the Earth's center of mass, is 898km. The eccentricity of the orbit is 7.57E-04 and it orbits at an inclination of 45 degrees to the equatorial plane of the Earth.
