Payload
TANSEI-4 (MS-T4)
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TANSEI-4 (MS-T4) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 17, 1980 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 17, 1980 at 12:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3S →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Tansei-4
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 158 km
- Periapsis
- 155 km
- Inclination
- 38.68°
- Orbital period
- 87.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 183.35 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1980-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11706
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 3.48 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 12, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 12, 1983
- Time in service
- 3.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed