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Mu-3S-II | EXPRESS

January 15, 1995 at 1:45 PM UTC

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

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January 15, 1995 at 1:45 PM UTC

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Uchinoura Space Center, Japan · 31.2510, 131.0821

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Mu-3S-II
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Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

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Mission description

EXPRESS (Experiment Re-entry Space System) was a multi-national (Germany, Japan, Russia, Australia) project for a small, micro gravity and reentry research spacecraft. The spacecraft was procured from Khrunichev for a cost of 30 Mio. DM.

Vehicle

Mu-3S-II

Mu · S-II

Height

27.8 m

Diameter

1.41 m

LEO capacity

800 kg

Successful launches

7

Launch complex

Mu Center

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

The Uchinoura Space Center is a space launch facility in the Japanese town of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture. All of Japan's scientific satellites were launched from Uchinoura prior to the M-V launch vehicles being decommissioned in 2006. It continues to be used for suborbital launches, stratospheric balloons and has also been used for the Epsilon orbital launch vehicle. Additionally, the center has antennas for communication with interplanetary space probes.

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