ASTRO-H (HITOMI)

41337
Spacetrack Directory Number
2016-02-17
Orbit launches


Satellite information ASTRO-H (HITOMI)

Spacetrack Directory Name ASTRO-H (HITOMI)
Orbit launches 2016-02-17
Country/organisation of origin Japonia (JPN)
Starting point TANSC (Tanegashima Space Center, Japan)
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Perigee 562 km
Apogee 579 km

Additional information ASTRO-H (HITOMI)

Hitomi (Japanese: ???), also known as ASTRO-H and New X-ray Telescope (NeXT), was an X-ray astronomy satellite commissioned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for studying extremely energetic processes in the Universe. The space observatory was designed to extend the research conducted by the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA) by investigating the hard X-ray band above 10 keV. The satellite was originally called New X-ray Telescope; at the time of launch it was called ASTRO-H. After it was placed in orbit and its solar panels deployed, it was renamed Hitomi. The new name refers to the pupil of an eye, and to a legend of a painting of four dragons, two of which were given eyes and flew into the sky, and two that were left eyeless and stayed as motionless art. The spacecraft was launched on 17 February 2016 and contact was lost on 26 March 2016, due to multiple incidents with the attitude control system leading to an uncontrolled spin rate and breakup of structurally weak elements.

satellite ASTRO-H (HITOMI) Date of exalting 17.02.2016y.


Update time: 2023-04-19 01:54:05
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