Weather
HIMAWARI-4 (GMS-4)
NonoperationalWeatherGEONORAD 20217
HIMAWARI-4 (GMS-4) is a Japan weather satellite, launched on September 5, 1989 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 5, 1989 at 07:11 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-I →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Himawari 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,801 km
- Periapsis
- 36,414 km
- Inclination
- 14.8°
- Orbital period
- 1478.25 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 322.1 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.15 × 3.45 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-070A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20217
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 12.5892 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational