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QPS-SAR-1
Former Japanese commercial synthetic aperture radar satellite and technology demonstrator. QPS-SAR-1 was launched on December 11, 2019 aboard a PSLV-QL from Sriharikota. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Oct 3, 2024).
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Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Izanagi
- Common name
- QPS-SAR-1
- Payload designation
- QPS-SAR 1
- International designator
- 2019-089E
- NORAD catalog number
- 44856
- GCAT identifier
- S44856
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1011
Mission
- Mission type
- Radar imaging
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- QPS
- Owner
- QPS Labs
- Country
- Japan
- Builder
- QPS Laboratories Co, Ltd.
- Platform (bus)
- QSAT
Launch
- Date
- December 11, 2019 · 09:55 UTC
- Launch record
- 2019-089Success
- Rocket
- PSLV-QL
- Spaceport
- Sriharikota · pad FLP
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 564 km
- Apogee
- 574 km
- Inclination
- 36.97°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- October 3, 2024
- Last known active
- March 2020
- End of operations
- 2021
Size
- Mass
- 120 kg
- Dry mass
- 100 kg
- Length
- 0.6 m
- Diameter
- 0.80 m
- Span
- 3.6 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q140962073 (CC0).