Launched the joint NASA-NASDA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, the first spacecraft dedicated to measuring tropical rainfall, together with Japan's ETS-7 (Kiku-7) autonomous rendezvous and docking demonstrator, from Tanegashima.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 H-II flights
- Date and time
- 27 November 1997, 21:27 UTC
- Rocket
- H-II
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1997-074
- Launches in 1997
- 77th of 89
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