Payload
KIKU-7 (ETS-VII)
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KIKU-7 (ETS-VII) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on November 27, 1997 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 27, 1997 at 09:27 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-II →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- TRMM & ETS 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 200 km
- Periapsis
- 187 km
- Inclination
- 34.94°
- Orbital period
- 88.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 2,834.49 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-074B
- NORAD catalog №
- 25064
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 10.4707 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 13, 2015
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 13, 2015
- Time in service
- 18.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed