Payload
STARS (KUKAI)
OperationalPayloadLEONORAD 33498
STARS (KUKAI) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on January 23, 2009 into LEO.
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
- 586 km
- Periapsis
- 574 km
- Inclination
- 98.15°
- Orbital period
- 96.27 min
- Orbit data fetched
- October 14, 2026 at 04:02 PM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 7 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.253 × 0.16 × 0.16 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-002G
- NORAD catalog №
- 33498
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.124 m²
- Status
- Operational