HIMAWARI - 8 : A Geostationary Satellite Story
Source : https://public.wmo.int/en/resources/meteoworld/facilitating-use-of-new-himawari-8-satellite-data With a mission of weather satellite, Himawari 8 ( ひまわり8号 ) was launched from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex Pad 1 at the Tanegashima Space Center at 05:16 UTC on 7 October 2014. It reached its operational geostationary orbit in October 2014, at 140.7 degrees East. Source: http://www.spaceflight101.net/h-iia-f25-launch-updates---himawari-8.html Japan's H-IIA blasted off from Tanegashima Space Center and jumped off its lauching pad, following its 28 minute mission to reach a Geostationary Transfer Orbit. Racing across the Pacific Ocean, it separated the two solid-fueled boosters under two minutes after it launched and it resumes, as planned, firing its large Core Stage. It's second stage executed two burns which includes the first being successfully placing the stack in a low parking orbit and the second raising the apogee to reach the Geostationar...