Payload
TANSEI-2 (MS-T2)
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TANSEI-2 (MS-T2) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 16, 1974 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 16, 1974 at 05:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3C →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Tansei-2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 174 km
- Periapsis
- 145 km
- Inclination
- 31.22°
- Orbital period
- 87.68 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 55.5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-008A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7122
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.9094 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 22, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 22, 1983
- Time in service
- 8.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed