Space AtlasHIMAWARI-2 (GMS-2)
NORAD 12677 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-08-10 · Tanegashima, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 300 kg
- Size
- 3.5 × 2.2 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,946 × 36,034 km
- Inclination
- 7.9°
- Period
- 1446.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0010
- 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.