Payload
HTV-8 (KOUNOTORI 8)
DecayedPayloadLEO
HTV-8 (KOUNOTORI 8) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on September 24, 2019 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 24, 2019 at 04:05 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIB 304 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Kounotori 8 (HTV-8)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 399 km
- Periapsis
- 145 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 89.94 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 16,138 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2019-062A
- NORAD catalog №
- 44546
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 3, 2019
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 3, 2019
- Time in service
- 40 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed