Payload
TSUBASA (MDS-1)
NonoperationalPayloadMEONORAD 27367
TSUBASA (MDS-1) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 4, 2002 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 4, 2002 at 02:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 2024 →
- Operator
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Mission
- Tsubasa
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 9,679 km
- Periapsis
- 276 km
- Inclination
- 28.49°
- Orbital period
- 200.71 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 449 kg
- Dimensions
- 2 × 1.6 × 1.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-003A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27367
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 3.1636 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational