2002 · Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Tsubasa
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MDS 1 (Mission Demonstration Satellite 1), renamed Tsubasa after launch, is a Japanese satellite that was launched by a H-2A-2024 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center at 02:32 UT on 4 February 2002. It was renamed Tsubasa (meaning Wings) after the successful launch.
Overview
- Date / time
- February 4, 2002 at 02:45 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
- Mission
- Tsubasa
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit