Payload
KAKEHASHI (COMETS)
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
KAKEHASHI (COMETS) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 21, 1998 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 21, 1998 at 07:55 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-II →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Kakehashi
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 17,725 km
- Periapsis
- 1,033 km
- Inclination
- 30.07°
- Orbital period
- 328.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 1,982.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25175
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 28.9557 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational