Experimental Geodetic Payload
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Ajisai (Japanese: あじさい, meaning "Hydrangea") is a Japanese satellite sponsored by NASDA, launched in 1986 on the maiden flight of the H-I rocket. It is also known as the Experimental Geodetic Satellite (EGS), as it carries the Experimental Geodetic Payload (EGP).
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Ajisai
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Geodesy
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASDA
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- Elapsed:
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- August 12, 1986, 20:45 GMT (August 13, 1986, 05:45 local time)
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- H-1 Flight No.1
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Tanegashima Space Center
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- NASDA
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 50°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 116 minutes
- Spaceflight.apsis
- apsis
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Earth observation satellite
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1986-08-12
- space launch vehicle
- H-I
- start point
- Tanegashima Space Center
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Structure
- Orbit
- Mission
- Visual appearance
- View from Earth
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Ajisai (Japanese: あじさい, meaning "Hydrangea") is a Japanese satellite sponsored by NASDA, launched in 1986 on the maiden flight of the H-I rocket. It is also known as the Experimental Geodetic Satellite (EGS), as it carries the Experimental Geodetic Payload (EGP).
==History== EGP was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on August 12, 1986 at 20:45 GMT (August 13, 05:45 local time). The launch vehicle was the first H-I rocket. After launch, the spacecraft was given the International Designator 1986-061A and Satellite Catalog Number 16908.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Experimental Geodetic Payload” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.