ETS-7
Spacecraft · Japan
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Credit: NASDA
Japanese rendezvous technology satellite. Hikoboshi. Technology satellite, to accomplish remote automatic rendezvous and docking. Technology satellite operated by NASDA, Japan. Launched 1997.
More at: ETS-7.
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- Country
- Japan
- Launch Vehicles
- H-II
- Launch Sites
- Tanegashima, Tanegashima Y
- Payload
- ETS-7
- Nation
- Japan
- Agency
- NASDA
- Manufacturer
- Toshiba
- Class
- Technology
- Type
- Navigation technology satellite
- Spacecraft Bus
- ETS
- Spacecraft
- ETS-7
- Decay Date
- 2015-11-13
- USAF Sat Cat
- 25064
- COSPAR
- 1997-074B
- Apogee
- 548 km (340 mi)
- Perigee
- 545 km (338 mi)
- Inclination
- 35.00 deg
- Period
- 95.50 min. The Orihime and Hikoboshi satellites undocked and redocked on July 7 1998 in the FP-1 test of automated docking systems. Despite claims of the NASDA space agency that this is a first, automated Russian craft have docked on many occasions since the Kosmos-186/188 docking in 1968
Photo Gallery
Orihime
Credit: Manufacturer Image
