Payload
SFU
DecayedPayloadLEO
SFU is a Japan payload satellite, launched on March 18, 1995 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 18, 1995 at 08:01 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-II →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- SFU & Himawari 5
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 478 km
- Periapsis
- 469 km
- Inclination
- 28.45°
- Orbital period
- 94.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 3,766.11 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1995-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23521
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 13.9214 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 20, 1996
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 20, 1996
- Time in service
- 308 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed