ISAS Mu-3S-II from Kagoshima launched Astro-C, renamed Ginga after orbit, a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite with large-area proportional counters to study variable cosmic X-ray sources and gamma-ray bursts.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 420 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 8 Mu-3S-II flights
- Date and time
- 5 February 1987, 06:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Mu-3S-II
- Builder
- Nissan
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1987-012
- Launches in 1987
- 12th of 114
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