Maiden flight of JAXA's solid-fueled Epsilon rocket, carrying the SPRINT-A space telescope, later renamed Hisaki, to study the atmospheres of Venus, Mars and Jupiter in ultraviolet light.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 340 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 Epsilon flights
- Date and time
- 14 September 2013, 05:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Epsilon
- Builder
- IHI
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2013-049
- Launches in 2013
- 51st of 81
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