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H-II | Kakehashi

Kakehashi

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Launch Details

Date: 21 Feb 1998, 07:55 am UTC

Rocket: H-II (H-II)

Provider: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Pad: Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Mission Description

COMETS (Communication Engineering Test Satellite) a two-ton geostationary three-axis stabilized satellite, is being created to develop the new technologies required for future fields in communications and broadcasting.