Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Kakehashi

H-II

SUCCESS
Success

Saturday, February 21, 1998 · 07:55 UTC

Mission

/01

COMETS (Communication Engineering Test Satellite) a two-ton geostationary three-axis stabilized satellite, is being created to develop the new technologies required for future fields in communications and broadcasting.

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

H-II

Launch Pad

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1

Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

30.401° N, 130.978° E

6

Pad Launches

30

Location Launches

6

Agency Launches

12

Orbital This Year

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