Sakigake (MS-T5), Japan’s first interplanetary spacecraft, launched on the maiden Mu-3S-II from Uchinoura into heliocentric orbit. It made a distant flyby of Comet Halley in March 1986 as a technology pathfinder for Suisei.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Asteroid
- Payload to orbit
- 601 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 8 Mu-3S-II flights
- Date and time
- 7 January 1985, 19:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Mu-3S-II
- Builder
- Nissan
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1985-001
- Launches in 1985
- 1st of 125
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