NASDA Information for Press: Launch Mission of Marine Observation Sattelite-1b (MOS-1b) by H-I Launch Vehicle (H21F). |
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2nd stage engine aerodynamic umbrella amateur radio Amateur Satellite-1b JAS-1b analogue antenna approx attitude Battery Boom and Umbrella Coast flight command decoder Control Center data acquisition station Deployable Boom Doppler earth acquisition earth observation satellite engine cut-off flight model function ground H-I launch vehicle Inertial guidance system injected Japan Amateur Satellite-1b Katsuura launch day Liquid engine Major Characteristics Marine Observation Satellite-1b Microwave Scanning Radiometer mission momentum wheels mother ship N-II NASDA National Aerospace Laboratory Observation Satellite-1b MOS-1b Okinawa on-orbit operation phase Osaki Range Payload fairing piggy back payloads Propellant Radiometer Radiometer MSR S-band satellite's separation solar cells solar paddle stage engine ignition Strap on booster Sun Acquisition sun-synchronous orbit Sun-synchronous subrecurrent orbit Takesaki Press Takesaki Range Tanegashima Space Center Telemetry Thermal Infrared Radiometer thruster Tracking and Control tracking and data Tracking/Control transmitted Tsukuba Space Center Umbrella Test DEBUT Vernier engine Visible and Thermal VTIR wavelength