Japan's ISAS launched the Solar-A spacecraft, renamed Yohkoh ("Sunbeam") once in orbit, to observe solar flares in X-rays and energetic neutrons from Kagoshima. A Japan-US-UK collaboration, it operated until an eclipse-triggered attitude failure ended the mission in 2001.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 390 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 8 Mu-3S-II flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1991, 02:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Mu-3S-II
- Builder
- Nissan
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1991-062
- Launches in 1991
- 64th of 91
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