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H-IIA 2024 | USERS & DRTS

Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyYoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1 — Tanegashima Space Center, JapanSep 10, 2002, 08:20 UTC

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

mission

Name: USERS & DRTS
Type: Communications
Target orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)

USERS (Unmanned Space Experiment Recovery System) was a Japanese microgravity experimental satellite. After 8.5 months in orbit, a reentry vehicle was to be returned to earth with the materials manufacturered in space. DRTS (Data Relay & Tracking Satellite) is an inter-satellite communications experiment satellite to relay data between the target spacecraft (low earth orbit satellites, space stations, etc.) and ground stations.

schedule

NET (no earlier than): Sep 10, 2002, 08:20 UTC
Window opens: Sep 10, 2002, 08:20 UTC
Window closes: Sep 10, 2002, 08:20 UTC
Last updated: Sep 08, 2023, 09:17 UTC

vehicle & provider

Rocket: H-IIA 2024
Family: H-II
Variant: 2024
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