Payload
HAKUCHO (CORSA-B)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 11272
HAKUCHO (CORSA-B) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 21, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 21, 1979 at 05:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3C →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Hakucho
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 148 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 29.87°
- Orbital period
- 87.44 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 95.14 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.8 × 0.65 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11272
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.6303 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 15, 1985
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 15, 1985
- Time in service
- 6.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed