Payload
GINGA (ASTRO-C)
DecayedPayloadLEO
GINGA (ASTRO-C) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 5, 1987 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 5, 1987 at 06:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3S-II →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Ginga
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 151 km
- Periapsis
- 142 km
- Inclination
- 31.08°
- Orbital period
- 87.42 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 438.06 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1987-012A
- NORAD catalog №
- 17480
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 7.72 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 1, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 1, 1991
- Time in service
- 4.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed