KIKU-2 (ETS-II)
NORAD 9852 · Payload · In orbit since 1977
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1977-02-23 · Tanegashima, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 120 kg
- Size
- 0.9 × 1.4 m · 1.8 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,858 × 35,870 km
- Inclination
- 5.2°
- Period
- 1439.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0001
- 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.