Feb 6 1979
From The Space Library
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) reported Japan's successful launch of an experimental communications satellite Ecs, also called Ayame, from Tanegashima Space Center on an N-1 rocket at 5:46 p.m. local time. Early orbit elements were 34,411-kilometer apogee, 193-kilometer perigee, 604-minute period, and 24.1° inclination. Designed for communications tests at very high frequencies, Ayame would later be maneuvered into stationary orbit, the National Space Development Agency said. (FBIS, Tokyo Kyodo in English, Feb 6179)
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