Mission type | Technology development/test satellite |
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Operator | NASDA |
COSPAR ID | 1986-061C |
SATCAT no. | 16910 |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 12 August 1986, 20:45 (1986-08-12UTC20:45Z) UTC |
Rocket | H-I |
Launch site | Tanegashima Osaki |
Contractor | Mitsubishi |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Decommissioned |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 1,489.6 kilometres (925.6 mi) [1] |
Apogee altitude | 1,061.8 kilometres (659.8 mi) [1] |
Inclination | 50.0 degrees [1] |
Period | 116.8 minutes [1] |
Magnetic Bearing Flywheel Experimental System (MABES), also known as Jindai (じんだい) is a National Space Development Agency of Japan(NASDA) satellite mission. It conducted experiments on the levitation of the magnetic bearing flywheel in a zero-G environment, and tested the function of the launch lock mechanism.[2]
On 12 August 1986, Jindai was launched from Tanegashima Space Center aboard the maiden flight of H-I rocket, along with Ajisai and Fuji.
Jindai is attached to the second stage of the H-1 rocket,[3] and as of 2013, still remains in low Earth orbit.[1]
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