NASDA N-I Ayame

Name: NASDA N-I Ayame
Start: 1979-02-06T08:46:00.000Z
Location: Osaki Launch Complex

N-I rocket used for the Ayame space launch

N-I

Status

Failure

Date

6 FEB 1979

08:46

Launch Provider

National Space Development Agency of Japan

Launch Pad

Osaki Launch Complex

Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Mission Overview

Japanese experimental communications satellite

Rocket

N-I

Mission Type

Communications

Orbit

Geostationary Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

The N-I or N-1 was a derivative of the American Thor-Delta rocket, produced under licence in Japan. It used a Thor-ELT first stage, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-designed LE-3 engine was used as a second stage, and three Castor SRMs. Seven were launched between 1975 and 1982, before it was replaced by the N-II.

Height

34 m

Diameter

2.44 m

Launch Mass

131 T