Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite (WINDS), nicknamed Kizuna, a Japanese experimental high-speed broadband and internet communications satellite, launched to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.9 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 H-IIA 2024 flights
- Date and time
- 23 February 2008, 08:55 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 2024
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-007
- Launches in 2008
- 7th of 69
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