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KIKU-6 (ETS-VI)

NORAD 23230 · Payload · In orbit since 1994

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Launched
1994-08-28 · Tanegashima, Japan
Country / operator
JPN (Japan)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
3,800 kg
Size
7.9 × 2 m · 30.5 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
8,429 × 38,812 km
Inclination
12.4°
Period
861.5 min
Eccentricity
0.5065
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.