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DESPATCH
Japanese art project and radio transmission smallsat. DESPATCH was launched on December 3, 2014 aboard a H-IIA 202 from Tanegashima. Latest status in GCAT: left Earth orbit for deep space (Dec 3, 2014).
COSPAR 2014-076CNORAD 40321Japan
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- DESPATCH
- Payload designation
- ARTSAT-2
- International designator
- 2014-076C
- NORAD catalog number
- 40321
- GCAT identifier
- S40321
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/812
Mission
- Mission type
- Deep space
- Use
- Amateur / academic
- Program
- Tama
- Owner
- Tama
- Country
- Japan
- Builder
- Tama Art University, Hachioji campus
- Platform (bus)
- Artsat-2
Launch
- Date
- December 3, 2014 · 04:22 UTC
- Launch record
- 2014-076Success
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Spaceport
- Tanegashima · pad Y
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- EEO
- Perigee
- 245 km
- Inclination
- 29.89°
- Status
- Left Earth orbit for deep space
- Status date
- December 3, 2014
- Last known active
- Dec 14, 2014
- End of operations
- January 2015
Size
- Mass
- 32 kg
- Dry mass
- 32 kg
- Length
- 0.5 m
- Diameter
- 0.50 m
- Span
- 0.5 m
Deep space
- Deep-space catalog entry
- D00947
- Final central body
- Earth
- Phase start
- December 3, 2014
- Phase outcome
- Escaped to another body · December 6, 2014
- Destination
- HCO
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q19258237 (CC0).