Payload
KYOKKO (EXOS-A)
NonoperationalPayloadMEONORAD 10664
KYOKKO (EXOS-A) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 4, 1978 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 4, 1978 at 07:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3H →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Kyokko
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 3,937 km
- Periapsis
- 641 km
- Inclination
- 65.37°
- Orbital period
- 133.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 102.08 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.95 × 0.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10664
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 1.0127 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational