Payload
KIKU-6 (ETS-VI)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
KIKU-6 (ETS-VI) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on August 28, 1994 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 28, 1994 at 07:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-II →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Kiku-6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 38,790 km
- Periapsis
- 8,451 km
- Inclination
- 12.56°
- Orbital period
- 861.81 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 1,783.94 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1994-056A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23230
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 38.6374 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational