Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Provider type
Government
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Astrophysics
Launch site
Japan
Date
Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:30:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4722 ever
Mission
Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-EII) was an X-ray astronomy satellite developed jointly by the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science at JAXA and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to probe high energy X-ray sources, such as supernova explosions, black holes and galactic clusters. It was launched on 10 July 2005 aboard the M-V rocket on the M-V-6 mission. After its successful launch, the satellite was renamed Suzaku after the mythical Vermilion bird of the South