Payload
HIT-SAT (HO-59)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 29484
HIT-SAT (HO-59) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on September 22, 2006 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 22, 2006 at 09:36 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- M-V →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Hinode
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 145 km
- Periapsis
- 127 km
- Inclination
- 98.25°
- Orbital period
- 87.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.2 × 0.1 × 0.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-041F
- NORAD catalog №
- 29484
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.0383 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 18, 2008
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 18, 2008
- Time in service
- 1.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed