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PRISM (HITOMI)

NORAD 33493 · Payload · Reentered 2025-04-16

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Launched
2009-01-23 · Tanegashima, Japan
Country / operator
JPN (Japan)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Optical imaging
Mass
8 kg
Size
0.4 × 0.2 m · 1 m deployed
Orbit class
LEO (< 2,000 km)
Perigee × Apogee
169 × 188 km
Inclination
98.1°
Period
87.9 min
Eccentricity
0.0015
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.