Payload
AYAME (ECS)
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
AYAME (ECS) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 6, 1979 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 6, 1979 at 08:46 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- N-I →
- Operator
- National Space Development Agency of Japan
- Mission
- Ayame
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 34,405 km
- Periapsis
- 12,481 km
- Inclination
- 9.65°
- Orbital period
- 854.17 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 260 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11261
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.2528 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational