NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Fuyo (JERS-1)

Launch Time
Tue Feb 11, 1992 01:50 UTC

Last flight of H-I (9 SO).
Last flight of H-I.

Rocket

H-I (9 SO)
Image Credit: JAXA
MHI
Status: Retired
Payload to LEO: 3,200 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,100 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 9
Rocket Height: 42.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.44 m

Mission Details

Fuyo (JERS-1)

Fuyo, or JERS 1 (Japanese Earth Resources Satellite) is an Earth Observation Satellite to cover the global land area for national land survey, agriculture, forestry, and fishery, environmental protection, disaster protection, and coastal monitoring, etc. focusing on observation around the world and resource exploitation. It was launched into a solar-synchronous sub-recurrent orbit at an altitude of 568 km with a recurrent period of 44 days by the H-1 launch vehicle on February 11, 1992 from National Space Development Agency of Japan [NASDA] Tanegashima Space Center, and has been continuing to observe and collect data with a mission data recorder by the high performance Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical Sensor (OPS).

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,400.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

LA-Y1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Stats

1992

8th orbital launch attempt

H-I

9th mission
1st mission of 1992
9th successful mission