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KIKU-4 (ETS-III)

NORAD 13492 · Payload · In orbit since 1982

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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.