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Kagoshima K

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First Launch: 1980-01-18. Last Launch: 2014-08-20. Number: 54 . Longitude: 131.08 deg. Latitude: 31.25 deg.

• WIND - . Nation: Japan. Agency: JAXA. Apogee: 300 km (180 mi).

• Microgravity - . Nation: Japan. Agency: JAXA. Apogee: 293 km (182 mi).

• Nation: Japan. Agency: JAXA. Apogee: 180 km (110 mi).

• Cryo tank flow test - . Nation: Japan. Agency: JAXA. Apogee: 117 km (72 mi). Engineering study of cryogenic fluid flow for future rocket stages..

• Sporadic E study - . Nation: Japan. Agency: JAXA. Apogee: 243 km (150 mi).

• TRICOM-1 - . Nation: Japan. Class: Technology. Type: Technology satellite. Spacecraft: Cubesat. COSPAR: 2017-0F01. Apogee: 200 km (120 mi). Perigee: -6,340 km (-6,340 mi). Inclination: 30.00 deg.

  See TRICOM 1. Japan attempted to launch a single cubesat into orbit with a launch vehicle massing less than 3 tonnes. The SS-520 sounding rocket was furnished with a 78 kg third stage which was intended to orbit a 3U, 3 kg cubesat, TRICOM-1. The mission was flight SS-520-4 (SS-520-1 and 2 were normal sounding rocket flights; 3 has not yet flown.) However, telemetry was lost 20 seconds into flight, during first stage burn. Following range safety rules, the command to ignite stage 2 was not sent and the vehicle flew a suborbital path to about 200 km altitude and then splashed down in the ocean. The record smallest successful orbital launch vehicle remains the 9.4-tonne Lambda 4S, also Japanese, which was retired in 1979.

• Tasuki - . Payload: TRICOM-1R; TRICOM-1R (TASUKI). Nation: Japan. USAF Sat Cat: 43201 . COSPAR: 2018-016A. Apogee: 256 km (159 mi). Perigee: 143 km (88 mi). Inclination: 30.94 deg. Period: 88.48 min. See TRICOM 1R (Tasuki). ..