Hayato (K-sat)

Spacecraft n°:

Japanese spacecraft n°: 160

Launch data: Designation  36573 / 10020A Launch date  20 May 2010 - 21:58 UT Launch site  Tanegashima, YLP-1 Launch vehicle  H-2A-202 (#17) Mission  Technology Earth orbit on May 20.99: Perigee / Apogee  285 x 305 km Eccentricity  0.002 Inclination  29.98 deg Period  90.42 min

Mission details:

• K-SAT (Kagoshima Satellite) is a small CubeSat mission developed by the Kagoshima University, which has following objectives:
  • Observation experiments of atmospheric vapor distribution for predicting localized heavy rain
  • Shooting moving images of the Earth through microwave high-speed communications
  • Basic communication experiment for super-small positioning satellites
• Launch was by H-IIA 202 rocket, flight F17. F17 reached a 292 x 306 km x 30.0 deg low Earth orbit at 2210 UTC and deployed three cubesats: KSAT for Kagoshima University, Negai* ("Negai-star" but always written with a star symbol) for Soka University in Tokyo, and Waseda-Sat 2 for Waseda University in Tokyo. KSAT carries an experiment to study atmospheric water vapor.
• Contact with the satellite was not established after launch.