OMOTENASHI
Sign in to saveAlso known as Outstanding MOon exploration TEchnologies demonstrated by NAno Semi-Hard Impactor
300px|thumb|right|Animation of OMOTENASHI around Earth OMOTENASHI (Outstanding MOon exploration TEchnologies demonstrated by NAno Semi-Hard Impactor) was a small spacecraft and semi-hard lander of the 6U CubeSat format intended to demonstrate low-cost technology to land and explore the lunar surface. The CubeSat was to take measurements of the radiation environment near the Moon as well as on the lunar surface. Omotenashi is a Japanese word for "welcome" or "Hospitality".
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- OMOTENASHI
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Outstanding MOon exploration TEchnologies demonstrated by NAno Semi-Hard Impactor
- Spaceflight.image
- Omotenashi-jaxa.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Technology demonstrator, Reconnaissance
- Spaceflight.operator
- JAXA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2022-156D
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 55904
- Spaceflight.spacecraft
- OMOTENASHI
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_type
- CubeSat
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- 6U CubeSat
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- JAXA
- Spaceflight.power
- 30 watts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 16 November 2022, 06:47:44 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- SLS Block 1
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- NASA
- Spaceflight.disposal_type
- Spacecraft failure
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Overview
- Flight
- Payload
- Propulsion and proposed landing
- See also
- References
- External links
300px|thumb|right|Animation of OMOTENASHI around Earth OMOTENASHI (Outstanding MOon exploration TEchnologies demonstrated by NAno Semi-Hard Impactor) was a small spacecraft and semi-hard lander of the 6U CubeSat format intended to demonstrate low-cost technology to land and explore the lunar surface. The CubeSat was to take measurements of the radiation environment near the Moon as well as on the lunar surface. Omotenashi is a Japanese word for "welcome" or "Hospitality".
OMOTENASHI was one of ten CubeSats launched with the Artemis 1 mission into a heliocentric orbit in cislunar space on the maiden flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), that took place on 16 November 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OMOTENASHI” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.