Payload
SAKURA-2A (CS-2A)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 13782
SAKURA-2A (CS-2A) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 4, 1983 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 4, 1983 at 08:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- N-2 →
- Operator
- National Space Development Agency of Japan
- Mission
- Sakura 2A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,074 km
- Periapsis
- 35,986 km
- Inclination
- 10.3°
- Orbital period
- 1448.54 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 343.9 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.18 × 3.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-006A
- NORAD catalog №
- 13782
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 5.8102 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational