Tsukushi
Spacecraft · Japan
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'Horsetail'; also called QSAT-EOS, Kyushu Satellite for Earth Observation System Demonstration. The satellite carried a CMOS camera with 4 m resolution and 7 km swath, a magnetometer and an in-situ space debris detector, as well as a deployable 3-meter kapton sail used as a drag augmentation device. Sun synchronous orbit; 1055 GMT local time of the descending node.
Related
- Family
- Surveillance
- Country
- Japan
- Launch Vehicles
- Dnepr
- Launch Sites
- Dombarovskiy.
- Tsukushi - .
- Payload
- QSAT-EOS
- Mass
- 49 kg (108 lb)
- Nation
- Japan
- Class
- Surveillance
- Type
- Surveillance satellite
- Spacecraft
- Tsukushi
- USAF Sat Cat
- 40301
- COSPAR
- 2014-070D
- Apogee
- 530 km (320 mi)
- Perigee
- 489 km (303 mi)
- Inclination
- 97.44 deg
- Period
- 94.81 min. 'Horsetail'; also called QSAT-EOS, Kyushu Satellite for Earth Observation System Demonstration. The satellite carried a CMOS camera with 4 m resolution and 7 km swath, a magnetometer and an in-situ space debris detector, as well as a deployable 3-meter kapton sail used as a drag augmentation device. Sun synchronous orbit; 1055 GMT local time of the descending node