Communications
HALCA (MUSES-B)
NonoperationalCommunicationsMEO
HALCA (MUSES-B) is a Japan communications satellite, launched on February 12, 1997 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 12, 1997 at 04:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- M-V →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Haruka
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 21,123 km
- Periapsis
- 523 km
- Inclination
- 31.24°
- Orbital period
- 374.19 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 815.66 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24720
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 25.5827 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational