Payload
SAKURA (CS)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
SAKURA (CS) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on December 15, 1977 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 15, 1977 at 12:47 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2914 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Sakura
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,181 km
- Periapsis
- 36,163 km
- Inclination
- 7.39°
- Orbital period
- 1455.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 336.97 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-118A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10516
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 8.058 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational