Ayame 1 (ECS A), Japan’s Experimental Communications Satellite for C/K-band millimeter-wave experiments, launched on an N-I from Tanegashima toward GEO; the mission failed after the satellite recontacted the third stage and was lost during apogee motor burn.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 260 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 N-I flights
- Date and time
- 6 February 1979, 08:46 UTC
- Rocket
- N-I
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1979-009
- Launches in 1979
- 9th of 110
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