ETS 1 (Kiku 1), NASDA’s first Engineering Test Satellite for launch, tracking, and control technology. N-I (N1F) from Tanegashima LP-N lofted the 85 kg craft into LEO on the rocket’s maiden flight—Japan’s first NASDA-launched satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 82 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 N-I flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1975, 05:30 UTC
- Rocket
- N-I
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1975-082
- Launches in 1975
- 86th of 132
See it in orbit
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