Friday, June 21, 2002

JERS-1

 1992-007A


Japan's first Earth Resources Satellite, ERS-1 or JERS-1, was built by Mitsubishi as a joint project of NASDA and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). Its on-orbit name was Fuyo (Japanese for `Rose Mallow'). The 1340 kg (1400 kg?) satellite had a 3.1 x 0.9 x 1.8 m bus, with a 8 x 3.4m solar paddle spanning 11.4m. The SAR antenna was 11.9m x 2.4m. The spacecraft was controlled from Tsukuba.


Fuyo-1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1992 Feb 11  0150  Launch by H-I 24F TNSC 
  T+0:40 SOB 1-6 out 
  T+0:40 SOB 7-9 on 
  T+1:20 SOB 7-9 out 
  T+1:25 SOB 1-9 sep 
  T+4:31 MECO 
  T+4:37 VECO 
  T+4:39 St 1 sep 
 0154 T+4:44 SES-1 
 0200 T+10:41 SECO-1  
 0240:50? T+50:50 Stage 2 sep from ERS-1  96.09 567 x 574 x 97.7 
 0300?  Stage 2 SES-2 depletion  
  SECO-2   
1992 Feb 11   SAR deployment problems 
1992 Apr 8   SAR successfully deployed 
1998 Oct 11   Power failure 
1998 Oct 12   end of ops
2001 Dec 3  2225 Reentry 67S 20W 

Payload:

  • SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar 12x2.5m radar antenna L-band, 18-m res

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