Space AtlasKIKU-8 (ETS-VIII)
NORAD 29656 · Payload · In orbit since 2006
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2006-12-18 · Tanegashima, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 5,800 kg
- Size
- 7.3 × 2.5 m · 40 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,135 × 36,156 km
- Inclination
- 11.6°
- Period
- 1454.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002
- 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.