Payload
KIKU-5 (ETS-V)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 18316
KIKU-5 (ETS-V) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on August 27, 1987 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 27, 1987 at 09:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-I →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Kiku 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,077 km
- Periapsis
- 36,027 km
- Inclination
- 12.79°
- Orbital period
- 1449.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 545.09 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.74 × 1.67 × 1.67 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1987-070A
- NORAD catalog №
- 18316
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 3.3081 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational