KIKU-5 (ETS-V)
NORAD 18316 · Payload · In orbit since 1987
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1987-08-27 · Tanegashima, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 550 kg
- Size
- 3.5 × 1.4 m · 9.7 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,030 × 36,070 km
- Inclination
- 12.8°
- Period
- 1449.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0005
- 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.