Space AtlasHIMAWARI-4 (GMS-4)
NORAD 20217 · Payload · In orbit since 1989
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1989-09-05 · Tanegashima, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 325 kg
- Size
- 3.4 × 2.2 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,413 × 36,803 km
- Inclination
- 14.8°
- Period
- 1477.9 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0045
- 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.