Payload
IGS 8B
DecayedPayloadLEO
IGS 8B is a Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSIC) payload satellite, launched on January 27, 2013 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 27, 2013 at 04:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 202 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- IGS Radar 4 & IGS Optical 5V
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 524 km
- Periapsis
- 512 km
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- Orbital period
- 95 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSIC)
- Manufacturer
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 1,500 kg
- Design lifetime
- 5 years
- Detailed purpose
- Optical Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-002B
- NORAD catalog №
- 39062
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 3.6159 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 20, 2019
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 20, 2019
- Time in service
- 6.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed