HIBARI
Launch
Launched on Nov 9, 2021 from Mu Center, Japan aboard a Epsilon.
Epsilon | RAISE-2 & others →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 16:02 UTC
Orbit class
SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)
Operator
JAXA
Country
Japan
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Nov 9, 2021
Mass
—
Apogee
476 km
Perigee
459 km
Inclination
97.31°
Period
1.56 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for HIBARI across 59 days of archived orbital elements (60 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-3.2 km
Rate
-0.05 km/day
Now
459 × 476 km
Apogee Perigee
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
Launched with
5 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2021-102 (Epsilon | RAISE-2 & others).
- TEIKYOSAT-4 (OORURI) · 49396
- RAISE 2 · 49397
- Z-SAT · 49399
- DRUMS · 49401
- KOSEN-1 · 49402
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