Mu-3H from Kagoshima LP-M launched MS-T3 (Tansei 3), an ISAS technology satellite testing the new Mu-3H rocket, magnetic attitude stabilization, and ultraviolet observations on its maiden flight into a highly elliptical orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 187 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Mu-3H flights
- Date and time
- 19 February 1977, 05:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Mu-3H
- Builder
- Nissan
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1977-012
- Launches in 1977
- 12th of 130
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