Payload
FITSAT-1 (NIWAKA)
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A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 175 km
- Periapsis
- 160 km
- Inclination
- 51.63°
- Orbital period
- 87.84 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067CP
- NORAD catalog №
- 38853
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.0194 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 4, 2013
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 4, 2013
- Time in service
- 14.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed