Launch Failure

M-V | ASTRO E

Name: M-V | ASTRO E
Start: 2000-02-10T01:30:00.000Z
End: 2000-02-10T01:30:00.000Z
Location: Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

February 10, 2000 at 1:30 AM UTC

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

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February 10, 2000 at 1:30 AM UTC

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Mu Center

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan · 31.2510, 131.0821

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Rocket: M-V
Launch site: Mu Center
Launch probability: Not published
Window opens: February 10, 2000 at 1:30 AM UTC
Window closes: February 10, 2000 at 1:30 AM UTC
Feed updated: July 7, 2023 at 1:27 PM UTC

Mission description

Astro E is a X-ray astronomy satellite bulit as a joint effort of NASA and the Japanese space agency ISAS. Observing the X-ray spectrum of the distant universe, Astro-E was to open a new window into the workings of black holes, neutron stars, active galaxies, and other very energetic objects. Astro E was lost in a launch vehicle failure in February 2000, but a repeat Astro E2 (renamed Suzaku after successful launch) was built to conduct the mission. It was launched in July 2005 aboard a Japanese improved M-5 rocket.

Vehicle

M-V

Mu · V

Height

30.8 m

Diameter

2.5 m

LEO capacity

1,800 kg

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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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