ADEOS-II

ADEOS-II
Type:	Earth observation satellite
Country:	Japan
Operator:	NASDA
COSPAR-ID :	2002-056A
Mission dates
Dimensions:	3680 kg
Size:	4 m × 4 m × 6 m
Begin:	December 14, 2002, 01:31 UTC
Starting place:	Tanegashima LA-Y
Launcher:	H-IIA 202 F4
Flight duration:	313 days until communication is lost
Status:	in orbit, out of order
Orbit data
Rotation time :	101.0 min
Orbit inclination :	98.7 °
Apogee height :	807 km
Perigee height :	806 km
Eccentricity :	0.0000295

ADEOS II ( English ad vanced E arth O bserving S atellit , Japaneseみどり-II, even Midori II ) is an Earth observation satellite, the Japanese Space Agency NASDA , to a launcher of the type H-IIA on 14 December 2002 by the Tanegashima Space Center from on brought an 800 km high sun-synchronous orbit . The launch mass was 3.68 tons, the electrical output of its solar panels 6 kilowatts. A solar storm on October 23, 2003 put the $ 630 million satellite into an idle state due to a fault in the solar panels, during which both the observation instruments were switched off and contact with the earth was broken. All attempts to generate the telemetry data failed.

Web links

• ADEOS-II / Midori-II homepage (English)
• Failure due to solar storm ( Memento from February 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• ADEOS II in the Earth Science Reference Handbook (English; PDF)
• NASA: ADEOS-2 at the International Laser Ranging Service (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adeos 2 - path data in NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed August 9, 2012 (English).
2. ↑ Launch Result of ADEOS-II / H-IIA F4. NASDA, December 14, 2002, accessed August 9, 2012 (English): "ADEOS-II is nicknamed 'Midori II'."