Payload
KIKU-1 (ETS-I)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 8197
KIKU-1 (ETS-I) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on September 9, 1975 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 9, 1975 at 05:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- N-I →
- Operator
- National Space Development Agency of Japan
- Mission
- Kiku-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,100 km
- Periapsis
- 974 km
- Inclination
- 46.99°
- Orbital period
- 105.91 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 84.24 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.9 × 0.86 × 0.9 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-082A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8197
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 1.427 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational