Denpa (REXS), a Japanese ISAS magnetosphere research satellite launched on the final Mu-4S from Kagoshima into a highly elliptical orbit; transmissions ceased days later from high-voltage arcing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 75 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 4 Mu-4S flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 1972, 02:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Mu-4S
- Builder
- Nissan
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1972-064
- Launches in 1972
- 68th of 113
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