Human Spaceflight
UME-2 (ISS-B)
NonoperationalHuman SpaceflightLEO
Multifunctional Transport Satellites (MTSAT) were a series of weather and aviation control satellites.
Read more on Wikipedia →Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- February 16, 1978 at 04:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- N-I →
- Operator
- National Space Development Agency of Japan
- Mission
- Ume 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,216 km
- Periapsis
- 975 km
- Inclination
- 69.36°
- Orbital period
- 107.17 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-018A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10674
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 1.3385 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational