Payload
YOHKOH (SOLAR-A)
DecayedPayloadLEO
YOHKOH (SOLAR-A) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on August 30, 1991 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 30, 1991 at 02:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3S-II →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Yohkoh
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 159 km
- Periapsis
- 159 km
- Inclination
- 31.29°
- Orbital period
- 87.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 386.52 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-062A
- NORAD catalog №
- 21694
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 3.1583 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 12, 2005
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 12, 2005
- Time in service
- 14.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed