Spacetrack Directory Name | STARS |
Alternative name | STARS (KUKAI) |
Follow STARS | STARS Tracker |
Pass predictions STARS | Pass predictions STARS |
Orbit launches | 2009-01-23 (15 years ago) |
Days in orbit | 5784 |
Country/organisation of origin | Japonia (JPN) |
Starting point | TANSC (Tanegashima Space Center, Japan) |
WWW | Here |
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Perigee | 624 km |
Apogee | 639 km |
Orbit slope (inclination) | 98.12° |
Laps per day | 15 |
Orbit | LEO (Sun-Synchronous) |
Height STARS | 624.2 km |
The primary objective of KUKAI is technical verification of a tethered space robot. Two satellite system, mother and daughter; becomes a 5m tethered system on orbit at the maximum; the daughter satellite is a tethered space robot, whose attitude can be controlled by its own arm link motion.
satellite STARS Date of exalting 23.01.2009y. Average height of ISS STARS hundred 624.2 km. Average velocity STARS is 27173 km/h. Inclination STARS satellite 98.12°.
In the table below we show the frequencies STARS.
Downlink | Beacon | Mode | Call sign |
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437.485 MHz | Beacon: 437.305 | 1200bps FM CW* | JR5YBN |
437.465 MHz | Beacon: 437.275 | 1200bps FM CW* | JR5YBO |
437.273 MHz | CW |