Payload
MIDORI (ADEOS)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
MIDORI (ADEOS) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on August 17, 1996 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 17, 1996 at 01:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-II →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Midori
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 792 km
- Periapsis
- 789 km
- Inclination
- 98.8°
- Orbital period
- 100.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 2,468.78 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-046A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24277
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 22.2151 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational