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    ECS (Experimental Communications Satellite)

    ECS
    Two Japanese satellites, also known by the national name of Ayama ("expansion") launched by NASDA (National Space Development Agency) to carry out millimeter-wave communications experiments. However, both failed – ECS because the third stage of the N-1 launch vehicle came in contact with the satellite after separation, and ECS-B because of a fault with the apogee kick motor.


    launch date Feb. 6, 1979 (ECS); Feb. 22, 1980 (ECS-B)
    launch vehicle N-1
    launch site Tanegashima
    size 1.4-m diameter cylinder
    mass 130 kg


    Related categories

       • JAPANESE SPACECRAFT
       • SATELLITES AND SPACE PROBES
       • JAPAN IN SPACE





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