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SAKURA (CS)

NORAD 10516 · Payload · In orbit since 1977

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Launched
1977-12-15 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
Country / operator
JPN (Japan)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
314 kg
Size
2.2 × 2.2 m · 3.8 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
36,166 × 36,178 km
Inclination
7.3°
Period
1455.5 min
Eccentricity
0.0001
Orbit data
Reconstructed from catalog orbit

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).

Same launch

Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.