Payload
KIKU-8 (ETS-VIII)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 29656
KIKU-8 (ETS-VIII) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on December 18, 2006 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 18, 2006 at 06:32 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 204 →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Kiku-8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,153 km
- Periapsis
- 36,138 km
- Inclination
- 11.55°
- Orbital period
- 1454.47 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 5,800 kg
- Dimensions
- 7.3 × 2.5 × 2.5 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-059A
- NORAD catalog №
- 29656
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 11 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational