Payload
RAIKO
DecayedPayloadLEO
RAIKO is a Japan payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 146 km
- Periapsis
- 140 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 87.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 3 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067CN
- NORAD catalog №
- 38852
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.0848 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 6, 2013
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 6, 2013
- Time in service
- 14.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed