HORYU 4

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HORYU 4 is classified as:

Experimental
Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 41340

Int'l Code: 2016-012D

Perigee: 551.3 km

Apogee: 568.7 km

Inclination: 31.0 °

Period: 95.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 6930 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: February 17, 2016
Source: Japan (JPN)
Launch site: TANEGASHIMA SPACE CENTER (TNSTA)

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 437.375/2400.300
Beacon (MHz): 437.375
Mode: 1k2 AFSK 9k6 GMSK S-BPSK CW
Call sign: JG6YBW
Status: Active

HORYU 4 is a small technology demonstration from the Kyushu Institute of Technology designed to study elecrical arcing on high power solar arrays. It also carries a telemetry system operating in an amateur radio band. It is also known as the Arc Event Generator and Investigation Satellite (AEGIS).

1 41340U 16012D   22339.41829010  .00003978  00000-0  27030-3 0  9998
2 41340  31.0056 346.3868 0012570 105.4687 254.7339 15.04569930373483

Source of the keplerian elements: Caltech