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Tenryu
Japanese tethered nano-satellite which reentered in 2021. Tenryu was launched on September 22, 2018 aboard a H-IIB from Tanegashima. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Jun 26, 2021).
COSPAR 1998-067PQNORAD 43640Japan
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Tenryu
- Common name
- Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite - Miniature Elevator
- Payload designation
- STARS-Me CV
- International designator
- 1998-067PQ
- NORAD catalog number
- 43640
- GCAT identifier
- S43640
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/966
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology
- Use
- Amateur / academic
- Program
- STARS
- Owner
- Shizuoka U
- Country
- Japan
- Builder
- Shizuoka University
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 1U
Launch
- Date
- September 22, 2018 · 17:52 UTC
- Launch record
- 2018-073Success
- Rocket
- H-IIB
- Spaceport
- Tanegashima · pad Y2
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 401 km
- Apogee
- 406 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- June 26, 2021
- Last known active
- April 2019
- End of operations
- April 2019
Size
- Mass
- 1 kg
- Dry mass
- 1 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 3 kg
- Length
- 0.1 m
- Diameter
- 0.10 m
- Span
- 0.1 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q114812798 (CC0).