NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Daichi

Launch Time
Tue Jan 24, 2006 01:33 UTC

Rocket

H-IIA 2022
Image Credit: MHI
MHI
Status: Retired
Payload to GTO: 4,500 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 53.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.07 m
Fairing Height: 12.0 m

Mission Details

Daichi

ALOS (Advanced Land Observation Satellite) is used for cartography, regional observation, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying.

ALOS has three remote-sensing instruments:

- the Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) for digital elevation mapping with 2.5 meter resolution,
- the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR-2) for precise land coverage observation with 10 meter resolution, and
- the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) for day-and-night and all-weather land observation.

ALOS transmitts its data via the DRTS (Kodama) satellite.

The ALOS was launched by an H-2A-2022 launch vehicle from the Tanegashima Space Center. ALOS as been given the nickname Daichi.

Five minutes after spacecraft separation, ALOS began to unfurl its 72-foot solar array that will provide electrical power to the craft throughout its mission. Six cameras are on-board to visually verify the correct deployment of the solar panel and various instrument antennas.

ALOS lost all power on 22. April 2011, thus ending the mission.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 4,000.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

LA-Y1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Stats

2006

2nd orbital launch attempt

H-IIA

8th mission
1st mission of 2006
7th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission