Carried ETS-5 (Kiku 5), a NASDA Engineering Test Satellite for three-axis geostationary bus technology and aeronautical-maritime mobile communications experiments (AMEX), into GEO from Tanegashima on an H-I.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 9 H-I flights
- Date and time
- 27 August 1987, 09:20 UTC
- Rocket
- H-I
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1987-070
- Launches in 1987
- 74th of 114
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