Space AtlasKIKU-3 (ETS-IV)
NORAD 12295 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-02-11 · Tanegashima, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Technology demonstration
- Mass
- 650 kg
- Size
- 2.8 × 2.1 m
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 294 × 12,206 km
- Inclination
- 28.4°
- Period
- 235.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.4719
- 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.