EXOS-A (Kyokko), a Japanese ISAS magnetospheric research satellite for the International Magnetospheric Study, launched on a Mu-3H from Kagoshima LP-M into a highly elliptical orbit to observe auroras and related ionospheric and magnetospheric phenomena.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 184 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Mu-3H flights
- Date and time
- 4 February 1978, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Mu-3H
- Builder
- Nissan
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1978-014
- Launches in 1978
- 14th of 128
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