Payload
KIKU-4 (ETS-III)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 3, 1982 at 05:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- N-I →
- Operator
- National Space Development Agency of Japan
- Mission
- Kiku-4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,003 km
- Periapsis
- 987 km
- Inclination
- 44.62°
- Orbital period
- 105.01 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1982-087A
- NORAD catalog №
- 13492
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 2.043 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational