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H-IIA 202 | GCOM-C1 & SLATS
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries · H-IIA 202 · Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries's 36th launch · 6th this year · humanity's 5,702nd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Dec 23, 01:26 – Dec 23, 01:48 UTC
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GCOM-C1 & SLATS
GCOM-C1 is another satellite in JAXA's Earth observation Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) constellation. This spacecraft is the first satellite in GCOM-C series and is intended to operate in sun-synchronous orbit for 5 years. It aims to collect surface and atmospheric measurements in order to monitor global climate change. Along with it is launched an engineering test satellite SLATS (Super Low Altitude Test Satellite), which is an attempt to develop techniques to operate a satellite in extremely low orbits. SLATS will try achieve that by maintaining position in orbit via ion engines. It will also collect data on atmosphere density and measure atomic oxygen in such low altitudes.
Earth Science · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
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