Hayato
Spacecraft · Japan
Original archive entry. The text, images and links below are kept as they were written.
1U Cubesat for Kagoshima University, released in parking orbit. Failed.
NASA NSSDC Master Catalog Description
Hayato, also called K-Sat, is a Japanese satellite, launched on a H-2A rocket from Tanegashima on 20 May 2010 at 21:58 UT. Hayato is a small CubeSat mission developed by the Kagoshima University. It has the following objectives: observation of atmospheric water vapor distribution, Earth imagery, high-speed communications and basic communications experiment for super-small positioning satellites.
Related
- Country
- Japan