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Inter-orbit Communication System-Exposed Facility
External communications component of the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo on the International Space Station. Inter-orbit Communication System-Exposed Facility was launched on July 15, 2009 aboard a Space Shuttle from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: attached to another object (Jul 23, 2009).
COSPAR 1998-067RJNORAD 45265Japan
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- ICS-EF (IOCS)
- Common name
- Inter-orbit Communication System-Exposed Facility
- Payload designation
- ISS ICS-EF
- International designator
- 1998-067RJ
- NORAD catalog number
- 45265
- GCAT identifier
- S45265
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1011
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- Kibo ORU
- Owner
- JAXA
- Country
- Japan
- Builder
- NEC Toshiba Space
- Platform (bus)
- JEM EFP
Launch
- Date
- July 15, 2009 · 22:03 UTC
- Launch record
- 2009-038Success
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC39A
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 415 km
- Apogee
- 422 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Status
- Attached to another object
- Status date
- July 23, 2009
- Last known active
- Feb 21, 2020
- End of operations
- Feb 21, 2020
Size
- Mass
- 310 kg
- Dry mass
- 310 kg
- Length
- 1.9 m
- Diameter
- 0.80 m
- Span
- 1.9 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q109340108 (CC0).