LAUNCH CENTER

Success

Sun Jul 10 2005

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Suzaku

Launch Successful

Launch Time

(3:30 AM UTC)

Launch Window Start

(3:30 AM UTC)

Launch Window End

(3:30 AM UTC)

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

M-V

The M-V rocket also called Mu-5 was a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites.

Type: Astrophysics
Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-EII) was an X-ray astronomy satellite developed jointly by the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science at JAXA and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to probe high energy X-ray sources, such as supernova explosions, black holes and galactic clusters. It was launched on 10 July 2005 aboard the M-V rocket on the M-V-6 mission. After its successful launch, the satellite was renamed Suzaku after the mythical Vermilion bird of the South

Location

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

Pad

Mu Center