ETS-VII Hikoboshi
Hikoboshi was the ETS-VII chaser flight spacecraft launched with Orihime and TRMM in November 1997. It carried the robotic experiment platform and performed repeated rendezvous and docking with the target. NASDA ended the mission in October 2002 after extended monitoring and an attitude-control failure.
Identity
- Aliases
- HikoboshiKiku-7 chaser1997-074B
- Name
- ETS-VII Hikoboshi
- Status
- retired
Details
- Description
- Hikoboshi was the ETS-VII chaser flight spacecraft launched with Orihime and TRMM in November 1997. It carried the robotic experiment platform and performed repeated rendezvous and docking with the target. NASDA ended the mission in October 2002 after extended monitoring and an attitude-control failure.
- First Flight Date
- 1997-11-27
- Vehicle Family
Links
- Official Url
- https://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/ets7/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:30:21 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:30:21 UTC