Payload
HTV-6 (KOUNOTORI 6)
DecayedPayloadLEO
HTV-6 (KOUNOTORI 6) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on December 9, 2016 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 9, 2016 at 01:26 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIB 304 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Kounotori 6 (HTV-6)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 371 km
- Periapsis
- 359 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 91.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 16,138 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-076A
- NORAD catalog №
- 41881
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 17.5681 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 5, 2017
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 5, 2017
- Time in service
- 58 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed