Payload
TENMA (ASTRO-B)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 13829
TENMA (ASTRO-B) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 20, 1983 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 20, 1983 at 05:10 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3S →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Tenma
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 215 km
- Periapsis
- 212 km
- Inclination
- 31.45°
- Orbital period
- 88.76 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 218.04 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.9 × 1.17 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 13829
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 2.5736 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 17, 1988
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 17, 1988
- Time in service
- 5.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed