MABES

MABES
Mission type Technology development/test satellite
Operator NASDA
COSPAR ID 1986-061C
SATCAT no. 16910
Start of mission
Launch date 12 August 1986, 20:45 (1986-08-12UTC20:45Z) UTC
Rocket H-I
Launch site Tanegashima Osaki
Contractor Mitsubishi
End of mission
Disposal Decommissioned
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime low Earth
Perigee 1,489.6 kilometres (925.6 mi) [1]
Apogee 1,061.8 kilometres (659.8 mi) [1]
Inclination 50.0 degrees [1]
Period 116.8 minutes [1]

Magnetic Bearing Flywheel Experimental System (MABES), also known as Jindai (じんだい) is a National Space Development Agency of Japan(NASDA) satellite mission. It conducted experiments on the levitation of the magnetic bearing flywheel in a zero-G environment, and tested the function of the launch lock mechanism.[2]

On 12 August 1986, Jindai was launched from Tanegashima Space Center aboard the maiden flight of H-I rocket, along with Ajisai and Fuji.

Jindai is attached to the second stage of the H-1 rocket,[3] and as of 2013, still remains in low Earth orbit.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "H-1 R/B(MABES)". REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
  2. "Past Projects - Satellites and Spacecraft". JAXA. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
  3. "MABES (Jindai)". GUNTER'S SPACE PAGE. Retrieved 2013-08-13.

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