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Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 24 Jan 1990, 11:46 am UTC

Rocket: Mu-3S-II (Mu)

Provider: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

Mission

Type: Robotic Exploration

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

Pad: Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

Mission Description

Japanese experimental satellite inserted in a highly elliptical Earth orbit which released a small satellite named Hagoromo into orbit around the Moon.