USERS & DRTS Mission
Launch Status
Success
Date & Time
10 Sep 2002, 8:20am
UTC
Location
Pad
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
USERS & DRTS
Mission Type
Communications
Destination
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
USERS (Unmanned Space Experiment Recovery System) was a Japanese microgravity experimental satellite. After 8.5 months in orbit, a reentry vehicle was to be returned to earth with the materials manufacturered in space. DRTS (Data Relay & Tracking Satellite) is an inter-satellite communications experiment satellite to relay data between the target spacecraft (low earth orbit satellites, space stations, etc.) and ground stations.
Updated: Jan 3, 7:59pm UTC
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