Payload
SAKURA-3A (CS-3A)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 18877
SAKURA-3A (CS-3A) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 19, 1988 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 19, 1988 at 10:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-I →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Sakura 3A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,432 km
- Periapsis
- 36,359 km
- Inclination
- 15.23°
- Orbital period
- 1467.33 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 545.09 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.18 × 3.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1988-012A
- NORAD catalog №
- 18877
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 6.1699 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational