Payload
HTV-9 (KOUNOTORI 9)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 45607
HTV-9 (KOUNOTORI 9) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on May 20, 2020 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 20, 2020 at 05:31 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIB 304 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Kounotori 9 (HTV-9)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 415 km
- Periapsis
- 413 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 92.85 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 16,138 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø4.4 × 9.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-030A
- NORAD catalog №
- 45607
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 20, 2020
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 20, 2020
- Time in service
- 92 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed