Payload
JAS-2 (FO-29)
Partially operationalPayloadLEONORAD 24278
JAS-2 (FO-29) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on August 17, 1996 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 17, 1996 at 01:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-II →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Midori
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,321 km
- Periapsis
- 799 km
- Inclination
- 98.52°
- Orbital period
- 106.41 min
- Orbit data fetched
- October 14, 2026 at 04:02 PM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 49.55 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.5 × 0.4 × 0.5 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-046B
- NORAD catalog №
- 24278
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.2437 m²
- Status
- Partially operational