Payload
SPRITE-SAT (RISING)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
SPRITE-SAT (RISING) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on January 23, 2009 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 23, 2009 at 03:54 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 202 →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- GOSAT
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 647 km
- Periapsis
- 641 km
- Inclination
- 98.15°
- Orbital period
- 97.6 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 20 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-002C
- NORAD catalog №
- 33494
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.268 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational