Feb 11 1981
From The Space Library
Japan reported that its National Space Development Agency successfully launched the first N-2 vehicle from Tanegashima carrying the 21st Japanese satellite-the engineering test satellite Ets 4 (Kiku 3)-into a transfer orbit with 36,000-kilometer apogee, 230-kilometer perigee, and 10.5-hour period. The 650-kilogram satellite would monitor vehicle performance. Japan would launch seven N-2s between August 1981 and February 1986 to meteorological and communications satellites and aeronautical experiments. Although used for five years, the N-1 did not have the power to carry big geostationary spacecraft into orbit. (FBIS, Kyodo in English, Feb 11181; NASA \Dly Actv Rpt, Feb 12181)
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