Hinode

 2006-041A

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ISAS SOLAR-B was launched on the final M-5 in 2006. It was named Hinode ('Rising Sun') and carried optical and X-ray solar telescopes. The satellite involved NASA's participation under the Solar-Terrestrial Probe series of the Sun-Earth Connection theme, with an optical instrument package developed by Lockheed's Palo Alto solar group and an X-ray telescope developed by Lockheed and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The SOLAR-B satellite was built by MELCO.

The 0.5-meter SOT has a resolution of less than 0.1 arcsec across a few-arcmin field of view; the EIS and XRT reach 1 arcsecond with a much larger field 1/2 degree field of view.

The M-V-7 has a launch mass of 140t. It carried subsatellites HIT-SAT and SSSAT.

Hinode's Mass is 900 kg. Box + 2 panels, span is 10.3m. Size is 1.6m x 3.8m.

A - payload B - solid C - slow decay after 2 days D - rapid decay E - slow decay F - payload Gslow Hslow Jmed K

SOLAR B
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2006 Sep 22	2136	Launch by M-V-7	USC
		T+1:15 St 1 sep
		T+1:15 St 2 burn, 140 km
		T+3:06 Fairing sep
		T+3:20 St 2 sep
		T+3:22 St 3 nozzle extension
		T+3:25 St 3 burn
	2141	T+5:11 St 3 burnout, 300 km
		T+5:47 Begin reorientation
		T+6:40 End reorientation
	2144	T+8:30 Stage 3 sep
	2149	T+13:50 HIT-SAT sep
	2152	T+16:30 SSSAT sep
	2209	T+33:30 Solar panels deploy
2006 Sep 22			94.11 271 x 678 x 98.3
2006 Sep 25		TCM-1	94.54 318 x 674 x 98.3
2006 Sep 27		TCM-2	96.24 482 x 674 x 98.3
2006 Oct 2		TCM-3	98.44 674 x 694 x 98.1
2006 Oct 23			98.45 674 x 695 x 98.1

Payload:

• SOT 0.5m solar optical telescope

• FPIP NASA/ Lockheed-Palo-Alto focal plane instrument package for optical telescope

  • BFI broadband filter imager

  • NFI narrowband filter imager

  • SP spectropolarimeter

• XRT Solar-B XR telescope for coronal studies. (Golub/SAO) 0.35m aperture single-shell Wolter II.

• EIS EUV imaging spectrometer