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Class: Technology. Type: Communications. Nation: Japan. Agency: Japan(Ayame). Experimental Communications Satellite (ECS). Communications and propagation experiments of satellite-communication systems. Operation and control experiment for geostationary satellites. Mass at launch 260 kg. Configuration - cylindrical. Height 1.9 m including antenna. Diameter 1.4 m. Spin stabilized.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 260 kg.
Ayame Chronology
06 February 1979
Ayame 1 Launch Site: Tanegashima . Launch Vehicle: N. FAILURE: Third stage collided with ECS a. Mass: 260 kg. Perigee: 29,260 km. Apogee: 37,425 km. Inclination: 4.9 deg. Experimental Communications Satellite. Experimental Communications Satellite (ECS). Launch time 0846 GMT. ECS was injected into the planned transfer orbit. On 9 Feb, however, ECS ceased radio transmissions about 10 seconds after the apogee kick motor was fired. Communicat ions and propagation experiments of satellite-communication systems. Operation and control experiment for geostationary satellites. Mass at launch 260 kg. Configuration - cylindrical. Height 1.9m including antenna. Diameter 1.4m. Spin stabilized.
22 February 1980
Ayame 2 Launch Site: Tanegashima . Launch Vehicle: N. Mass: 260 kg. Perigee: 32,785 km. Apogee: 36,839 km. Inclination: 1.4 deg.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
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- 279 - McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html
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