Payload
TAIYO (SRATS)
DecayedPayloadLEO
TAIYO (SRATS) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 24, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 24, 1975 at 05:25 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3C →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Taiyo
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 225 km
- Periapsis
- 152 km
- Inclination
- 31.47°
- Orbital period
- 88.26 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 85.23 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7671
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.462 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 29, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 29, 1980
- Time in service
- 5.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed