1994 · Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Kiku-6
successH-II | Kiku-6
ETS 6 (Engineering Test Satellite) was developed to confirm the technology required for a geostationary three-axis satellite bus system for high performance practical satellites in the 1990's, and to test advanced satellite communications equipment.
Overview
- Date / time
- August 28, 1994 at 07:50 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
- Mission
- Kiku-6
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Orbit