Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyH-IIA 2024Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
USERS & DRTS
Launched
September 10, 2002
Image: JAXA
Summary
USERS & DRTS launched on a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-IIA 2024 from Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan on September 10, 2002. It was Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's 10th launch, 2nd this year and humanity's 4,553rd orbital launch attempt. It was the 2nd H-IIA 2024 flight. The payload was bound for Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). USERS, one of 8 catalogued objects, reached a 448 × 463 km orbit inclined 30.3°. 8 objects from this launch are catalogued, 3 of them payloads.
- Watch
- No webcast on record.
- Booster
- No booster details on record.
- Mission
- Communications · Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
- Milestone
- 2nd H-IIA 2024 flightJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency's 10th launch2nd this yearhumanity's 4,553rd orbital launch attempt42nd orbital launch attempt this year
Flight preview
Orbit: as tracked
USERS · NORAD 27515 · 2002-042 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 8 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- USERS
- Object ID
- 2002-042A
- Epoch
- 2002-09-10 09:34:56 UTC
- Mean motion
- 15.39190737 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.0011252
- Inclination
- 30.2898°
- Ascending node
- 150.6014°
- Arg. of perigee
- 270.5777°
- Mean anomaly
- 89.3565°
- Element set
- 999
- Rev at epoch
- 1
- B*
- 0
Perigee, apogee and period are Kepler figures from the catalogued mean elements, not a propagated state. Published orbit: GTO. Ascent drawn from padside's representative profile.
Catalogued objects
8 catalogued: 3 payloads, 1 rocket stage, 4 components; 2 still in orbit
- USERS · NORAD 27515 · re-entered June 15, 2007
- Kodama · NORAD 27516 · in orbit
- USERS REM · NORAD 27815 · landed May 29, 2003
H-2A F3 Stage 2 · in orbit
Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org
About this launch
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.
Pad
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
10th launch from Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, 2nd this year · 34th from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
57 launches from this pad · 99 from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
218 days after the previous launch from this pad
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Questions
When did USERS & DRTS launch?
USERS & DRTS launched on September 10, 2002. The time is known to the hour, not the minute.
Where can I watch USERS & DRTS?
No webcast is on record for this launch.
What rocket launched USERS & DRTS?
H-IIA 2024, flown by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. H-IIA 2024 spec sheet
Where did USERS & DRTS launch from?
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.
What orbit did USERS & DRTS reach?
USERS, one of 8 catalogued objects, reached a 448 × 463 km orbit inclined 30.3°.
How many satellites did USERS & DRTS launch?
3 payloads from this launch are catalogued, 1 of them still in orbit (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).