TJS-5

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NORAD ID: 44978

Int'l Code: 2020-002A

Perigee: 35,780.6 km

Apogee: 35,809.2 km

Inclination: 0.5 °

Period: 1,436.2 minutes

Semi major axis: 42165 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   24130.58554868 -.00000344  00000-0  00000+0 0  9996
2 44978   0.4903  85.1080 0003398 192.7026 268.3613  1.00267676 15989

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC