Payload
DENPA (REXS)
DecayedPayloadLEO
DENPA (REXS) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on August 19, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 19, 1972 at 02:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-4S →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Denpa
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 229 km
- Periapsis
- 132 km
- Inclination
- 30.9°
- Orbital period
- 88.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 75.32 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-064A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6152
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 1.1028 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 19, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 19, 1980
- Time in service
- 7.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed