Payload
KIZUNA (WINDS)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
KIZUNA (WINDS) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 23, 2008 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 23, 2008 at 08:55 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 2024 →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Kizuna
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,785 km
- Periapsis
- 35,772 km
- Inclination
- 8.52°
- Orbital period
- 1435.68 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 4,850 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 32500
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 15.8489 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational