Payload
AKARI (ASTRO-F)
DecayedPayloadLEO
AKARI (ASTRO-F) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 21, 2006 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 21, 2006 at 09:28 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- M-V →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Akari
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 142 km
- Periapsis
- 121 km
- Inclination
- 98.15°
- Orbital period
- 87.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 952 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28939
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 3.76 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 11, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 11, 2023
- Time in service
- 17.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed