flown missionSuccess
H-IIA 2022 | Kaguya
Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyYoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1 — Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Kaguya
- Type
- Lunar Exploration
- Target orbit
- Lunar Orbit (LO)
Kaguya, also known as SELENE, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft. Kaguya usede a suite of 15 instruments to gather scientific data on lunar origins and evolution. The main orbiter was accompanied by two smaller satellites: a relay satellite Okina and a satellite Ouna for Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations. Kaguya orbited the Moon for a year and eight months and then ended the mission via a planned impact on the lunar surface.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- H-IIA 2022
- Family
- H-II
- Variant
- 2022
- Provider
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Type
- Government
- Country
- JPN
launch site
- Pad
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
- Location
- Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Country
- JPN
- Timezone
- Asia/Tokyo
- Coordinates
- 30.4008, 130.9777