Sakigake
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- Sakigake may also refer to Sakigake!! Kuromati Koko, an anime.
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| Organization: | JAXA |
| Mission type: | Flyby |
| Satellite of: | Comet Halley |
| Launch Date: | January 7, 1985 from Kagoshima Space Center |
| Launch Vehicle: | M-3SII-1 |
| Mission Duration: | November 15, 1995 |
| NSSDC ID: | 1985-001A |
| Webpage: | SAKIGAKE |
| Mass: | 138.1 kg |
| Eccentricity: | - |
| Inclination: | .07° |
| Orbital Period: | 382.8 d |
| Apoapsis: | 1.15 AU |
| Periapsis: | .92 AU |
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Sakigake (MS-T5), was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft. It aimed to demonstrate the performance of the new launch vehicle, test the schemes of the first escape from the Earth gravitation for Japan on engineering basis, observing space plasma and magnetic field in interplanetary space. Sakigake was also supposed to get references for scientists.
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[edit] Design
Unlike its twin Suisei it carried no imaging instruments in its instrument payload.
Data: Weight: 138 kg Orbit : Heliocentric International Index: 1985-001A
[edit] Launch
Sakigake was lauched January 7, 1985 from Kagoshima Space Center by M-3SII-1 launch vehicle.
[edit] Halley encounter
It carried out a flyby of Comet Halley on March 11, 1986 at a distance of 6.99 million km.
[edit] Giacobini-Zinner encounter
There were plans for the spacecraft to go on to an encounter with 21P/Giacobini-Zinner in 1998 but they had to be abandoned due to lack of propellant.
[edit] End of mission
Contact was lost in January 7, 1999.
[edit] External links
| Halley Armada | |
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| Giotto | Vega 1 | Vega 2 | Suisei | Sakigake | ICE | |
