NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

ASNARO 2

Launch Time
Wed Jan 17, 2018 21:06 UTC

First flight of the PBS stage.

Rocket

Epsilon PBS
Image Credit: JAXA
JAXA
Status: Active
Price: $39.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 1,612 kN
Payload to LEO: 700 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 26.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.5 m
Fairing Height: 9.19 m

Mission Details

ASNARO 2

The ASNARO 2 (Advanced Satellite with New system Architecture for Observation) is an planned Japanese radar satellite. It will feature an X-band radar.

The satellite is based on NEC's NEXTAR NX-300L bus. The imaging system is the 1 kW XSAR, a X-band SAR with a ground resolution of 1 m and a swath width of 10 km. XSAR can also be employed in the ScanSAR mode, which uses the satellite’s attitude control system to sweep out adjacent image strips to allow a broader ground swath to over 50 km, but with a reduced resolution of 16 meters.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 570.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

Mu Pad, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

Stats

2018

7th orbital launch attempt

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

4th mission
1st mission of 2018
3rd successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission

Epsilon

3rd mission
1st mission of 2018
3rd successful mission