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Hinotori

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Launch Details

Date: 21 Feb 1981, 12:30 am UTC

Rocket: Mu-3S (Mu)

Provider: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

Mission

Type: Heliophysics

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

Mission Description

A satellite for the study of solar flares during solar maximum