KIKU-4 (ETS-III)
NORAD 13492 · Payload · In orbit since 1982
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1982-09-03 · Tanegashima, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 385 kg
- Size
- 2.1 × 1.1 m · 6.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 986 × 1,004 km
- Inclination
- 44.6°
- Period
- 104.9 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0012
- 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.