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SS-520ロケット4号機"TRICOM-1" 打上げ / SS-520 Rocket F4 Nano Satellite "TRICOM-1" Launch

打ち上げのタイミング Watch Launch → 0:43:50 Launch time 2017.1.15 08:33-8:50 (JST) / 1.14 23:33-23:50(UTC) SS-520 F4 is very small three stage Rocket , developed based on two stage Sounding Rocket (SS - 52...

TRICOM-1

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Low Earth Orbit KS Center Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

TRICOM-1 is an experimental 3U cubsat build by University of Tokyo. It is equipped with 5 small cameras for Earth imaging purposes, and is also tasked with storing and transmitting data between ground terminals.

SS-520

Family:
Configuration: 4

The fourth configuration of SS-520. It would have been the smallest and lightest vehicle to put something into orbit, but it lost telemetry and was told to abort, falling into the ocean.

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    9.7 m
  • Diameter
    0.5 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    3.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    SS-520
  • Family
  • Variant
    4
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    SS-520-4
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    4.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

(JAXA)

Administrator: Hiroshi Yamakawa Founded: 2003 Successes: 33 Failures: 4 Pending: 2

Agency Type:

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.

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Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

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