MOS-1b (Momo-1b), Japan's second Marine Observation Satellite, launched aboard an H-I rocket from Tanegashima into a sun-synchronous orbit to continue ocean-color and sea-surface-temperature monitoring begun by its predecessor MOS-1.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 840 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 9 H-I flights
- Date and time
- 7 February 1990, 01:33 UTC
- Rocket
- H-I
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1990-013
- Launches in 1990
- 13th of 121
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