Payload
HTV-3 (KOUNOTORI 3)
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HTV-3 (KOUNOTORI 3) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on July 21, 2012 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 21, 2012 at 02:06 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIB 304 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Kounotori 3 (HTV-3)
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 421 km
- Periapsis
- 399 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Orbital period
- 92.76 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 15,400 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-038A
- NORAD catalog №
- 38706
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 7.6337 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 14, 2012
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 14, 2012
- Time in service
- 55 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed