Payload
JIKIKEN (EXOS-B)
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 16, 1978 at 05:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3H →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Jikiken
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 253 km
- Periapsis
- 116 km
- Inclination
- 30.98°
- Orbital period
- 88.18 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-087A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11027
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.7139 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 23, 2018
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 23, 2018
- Time in service
- 39.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed