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USERS & DRTS
H-IIA · Communications
2002Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center
Mission
USERS (Unmanned Space Experiment Recovery System) was a Japanese microgravity experimental satellite. After 8.5 months in orbit, a reentry vehicle was to be returned to earth with the materials manufacturered in space. DRTS (Data Relay & Tracking Satellite) is an inter-satellite communications experiment satellite to relay data between the target spacecraft (low earth orbit satellites, space stations, etc.) and ground stations.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- JAXA
- Rocket
- H-IIA
- Orbit
- GTO
- Pad
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2