Space AtlasHIMAWARI-7 (MTSAT-2)
NORAD 28937 · Payload · In orbit since 2006
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2006-02-18 · Tanegashima, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 4,650 kg
- Size
- 6 × 4 m · 30 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,091 × 36,158 km
- Inclination
- 5.9°
- Period
- 1453.0 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0008
- 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.