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August 23, 2005 at 9:09 PM UTC
Status: Launch Successful · Live feed refreshes every 30 seconds
- Launch site
- 109/95
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Launch probability
- Not published
- Window opens
- August 23, 2005 at 9:09 PM UTC
- Window closes
- August 23, 2005 at 9:09 PM UTC
- Feed updated
- June 14, 2023 at 3:33 AM UTC
Mission description
The Optical Inter-orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite (OICETS), also called Kirari, was an experimental satellite launched by JAXA to demonstrate interorbital communication between satellites through optical (laser) means.