Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Kiku-6

H-II

SUCCESS
Success

Sunday, August 28, 1994 · 07:50 UTC

Mission

/01

ETS 6 (Engineering Test Satellite) was developed to confirm the technology required for a geostationary three-axis satellite bus system for high performance practical satellites in the 1990's, and to test advanced satellite communications equipment.

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

2

Pad Launches

26

Location Launches

2

Agency Launches

59

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