HALCA
Sign in to saveAlso known as Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy, VSOP, VLBI Space Observatory Programme, MUSES-B, Haruka
HALCA (Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy), also known for its project name VSOP (VLBI Space Observatory Programme), the code name MUSES-B (for the second of the Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft series), or just Haruka () was a Japanese 8 meter diameter radio telescope satellite which was used for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). It was the first such space-borne dedicated VLBI mission.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- HALCA
- Spaceflight.names_list
- MUSES-BVSOPHaruka (はるか)
- Spaceflight.image
- Haruka HALCA VSOP MUSES-B.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- HALCA after the final assembly during a solar battery check at Uchinoura
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Astronomy
- Spaceflight.operator
- ISAS
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 1997-005A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 24720
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 8 years, 9 months, 18 days
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- NEC Toshiba Space Systems
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- M-5-1
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kagoshima M-V Pad
- Spaceflight.disposal_type
- Decommissioned
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Highly elliptical
- Spaceflight.orbit_eccentricity
- 0.5999671
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 31.1880 degrees
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 376.1 minutes
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