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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
08:50:00
Wednesday February 23, 1977
First flight of N-I Star-37E.
ETS 2 (Engineering Test Satellite 2) or Kiku 2 was a Japanese engineering technology satellite launched to acquire technologies to launch, track, and control geostationary satellites. It carried out a propagation experiment of millimeter and quasi-millimeter waves. Its weight at launch was 245 kg and was cylindrical, 191 cm high including the antenna, with a diameter of 141 cm. Its expected life was as least 6 months.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
1 Payload
245 kilograms
3rd
Mission
1st
Mission of 1977
15th
Orbital launch attempt