Payload
AKEBONO (EXOS-D)
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AKEBONO (EXOS-D) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 21, 1989 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 21, 1989 at 11:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3S-II →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Akebono
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 172 km
- Periapsis
- 132 km
- Inclination
- 74.86°
- Orbital period
- 87.52 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 292.37 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-016A
- NORAD catalog №
- 19822
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 2.9878 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 26, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 26, 2024
- Time in service
- 35.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed