Payload
NEXUS (FO-99)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 43937
NEXUS (FO-99) is a Nihon University payload satellite, launched on January 18, 2019 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- January 18, 2019 at 12:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Epsilon →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- RAPIS-1 & others
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 147 km
- Periapsis
- 141 km
- Inclination
- 97.03°
- Orbital period
- 87.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Nihon University
- Manufacturer
- Nahon University
- Users
- Civil
- Launch mass
- 1 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
- Detailed purpose
- Amateur Radio
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2019-003F
- NORAD catalog №
- 43937
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 9, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 9, 2023
- Time in service
- 4.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed