Payload
SHINSEI (MS-F2)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 5485
SHINSEI (MS-F2) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on September 28, 1971 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 28, 1971 at 04:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-4S →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Shinsei
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,860 km
- Periapsis
- 869 km
- Inclination
- 32.05°
- Orbital period
- 113.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 64.42 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.75 × 0.71 × 0.75 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-080A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5485
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.812 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational