Payload
HTV-4 (KOUNOTORI 4)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 39221
HTV-4 (KOUNOTORI 4) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on August 3, 2013 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 3, 2013 at 07:48 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIB 304 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Kounotori 4 (HTV-4)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 409 km
- Periapsis
- 152 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Orbital period
- 90.12 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 15,400 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø4.4 × 9.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 39221
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 21.0159 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 7, 2013
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 7, 2013
- Time in service
- 35 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed