Payload
HTV-2 (KOUNOTORI 2)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 37351
HTV-2 (KOUNOTORI 2) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on January 22, 2011 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- January 22, 2011 at 05:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIB 304 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Kounotori 2 (HTV-2)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 348 km
- Periapsis
- 346 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Orbital period
- 91.48 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 16,000 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø4.4 × 9.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-003A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37351
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 17.2216 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 30, 2011
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 30, 2011
- Time in service
- 67 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed