Payload
PRISM (HITOMI)
DecayedPayloadLEO
PRISM (HITOMI) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on January 23, 2009 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 23, 2009 at 03:54 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 202 →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- GOSAT
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 188 km
- Periapsis
- 169 km
- Inclination
- 98.13°
- Orbital period
- 88.06 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 8 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-002B
- NORAD catalog №
- 33493
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.0956 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 16, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 16, 2025
- Time in service
- 16.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed