Taiyo (SRATS), Japan’s Solar Radiation and Thermospheric Satellite for solar soft X-ray/UV and upper-atmosphere physics. Mu-3C-2 from Kagoshima (Uchinoura) placed the 86 kg ISAS craft in an elliptical orbit on 24 February 1975; it reentered in June 1980.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 86 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 4 Mu-3C flights
- Date and time
- 24 February 1975, 05:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Mu-3C
- Builder
- Nissan
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1975-014
- Launches in 1975
- 15th of 132
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