MS-T2 (Tansei 2), an ISAS technology demonstration satellite and the first payload on Japan’s Mu-3C solid rocket. Launched from Kagoshima LP-M into a highly elliptical orbit to verify the new four-stage vehicle and spacecraft systems.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 56 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 4 Mu-3C flights
- Date and time
- 16 February 1974, 05:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Mu-3C
- Builder
- Nissan
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1974-008
- Launches in 1974
- 9th of 113
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