launched from Japan

ASNARO-2

Success
JAN 17201821:06:11 UTC

Epsilon carried its first commercial satellite: ASNARO-2, an X-band radar imaging satellite built by NEC on a 570 kg platform. It followed the optical ASNARO-1, launched on a Dnepr in 2014, and reached a sun-synchronous orbit at about 505 km.

launched from Uchinoura

aboard Epsilon Epsilon-3 into LEO

Broadcast

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Payload

ASNARO-2

Earth observation

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