Payload
HINOTORI (ASTRO-A)
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HINOTORI (ASTRO-A) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 21, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 21, 1981 at 12:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3S →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Hinotori
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 155 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 31.32°
- Orbital period
- 87.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 188.31 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12307
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 4.45 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 11, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 11, 1991
- Time in service
- 10.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed