Sakigake
Sakigake was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and a technology pathfinder for the Halley campaign. It validated heliocentric navigation, distant communications, attitude control, and plasma and magnetic-field observations.
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Identity
- Aliases
- MS-T51985-001A
- Name
- Sakigake
- Slug
- sakigake
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- Sakigake was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and a technology pathfinder for the Halley campaign. It validated heliocentric navigation, distant communications, attitude control, and plasma and magnetic-field observations.
- End Date
- 1999-01-07
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- The mission successfully entered heliocentric orbit, sampled the solar wind and magnetic environment near Comet Halley, and continued interplanetary plasma observations for fourteen years until operations ended on January 7, 1999.
- Program
- Halley Armada
- Start Date
- 1985-01-07
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- Creation Time
- July 18, 2026 at 13:00:45 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 18, 2026 at 13:00:45 UTC
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