Payload
KIKU-3 (ETS-IV)
NonoperationalPayloadMEONORAD 12295
KIKU-3 (ETS-IV) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 11, 1981 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 11, 1981 at 08:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- N-2 →
- Operator
- National Space Development Agency of Japan
- Mission
- Kiku-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 12,232 km
- Periapsis
- 292 km
- Inclination
- 28.45°
- Orbital period
- 235.72 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 634.29 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.1 × 2.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-012A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12295
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 1.8459 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational