Saturday, December 16, 2000

Kiku 2

 1977-014A


ETS-2 (Kiku-2) was built by Mitsubishi with its US partner Ford. It was Japan's first geostationary satellite. ETS-2 carried an ionospheric beacon for scientific and communications research.


Kiku-2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1977 Feb 23  0850  Launch by N-1  TNSC 
  T+0:39 SOB burnout 
  T+1:20 SOB sep 
  T+3:41 MECO 100 km  
  T+3:47 VECO 
  T+3:48 St 1 sep 
  T+3:50 SES-1 
  T+4:10 Fairing 
 0857 T+7:56 SECO -3310 x 211 x 30.3  
 0912 T+22:56 St 2 sep 
 0913 T+23:10 TES 
 0913 T+23:50 TECO 
 0915  T+24:59 Stage 3 sep  191 x 36000 
1977 Feb 26  0532  AKM  34032 x 35754 x 0? GEO 84E 
1977 Feb 26  2220  Reorient orbit  34063 x 35710 GEO 84E 
1977 Feb 27  2357  Orb adjust 3m/s  34211 x 35710 GEO 108E 
1977 Feb 28  2302  Orb adjust 20m/s 35282 x 35711 GEO 118E 
1977 Mar 2  1038  Orb adjust 1m/s  35279 x 35781 GEO 124E 
1977 Mar 3  2206  Orb adj 6m/s  35607 x 35781 GEO 128E 
1977 Mar 4  2158  Orb adj 3m/s  35781 x 35786 GEO 130E 
1977 Mar 5   On station  GEO 130E 
1978 May   Main mission complete
1980 Oct    GEO 130E 
1981 Jun-Oct  Tracked at 82E to 40E, possible mis-id? 
1981 Dec    GEO 130E 
1982 Jun    GEO 130E 
1983 Jun    GEO 130E 
1985 Apr    GEO 130E 
1987 Jan 7    GEO 130E 
1990 Aug 28    1435.98 35781 x 35787 x 9.3 GEO 130.0E 
1990 Oct 11    1435.96 35776 x 35791 x 9.4 GEO 130.0E 
1990 Dec 10   mv out  
1991 May 11    1435.86 34603 x 35960 x 10.8 GEO 98.6E+0.05E 
1991 Aug 19    1440.03 35852 x 35874 x 10.1 GEO 110.6W+1.0W 
1999 Apr 21    1439.84 35839 x 35880 x 14.2 

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