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Class: Technology. Destination: Medium Earth Orbit. Nation: Japan. Agency: NASDA.

MABES (Jindai). Experiment on the levitation of the magnetic bearing flywheel under zero-g condition.

Typical orbit: 1483 km x 1604 km at 50 degrees inclination.

MABES Chronology

1986 August 12 - MABES - Launch Site: Tanegashima. Launch Complex: N. Launch Vehicle: Delta. Perigee: 1,483 km (921 mi). Apogee: 1,604 km (996 mi). Inclination: 50.00 deg. Period: 117.00 min.
MABES (Jindai). Experiment on the levitation of the magnetic bearing flywheel under zero-g condition.

Bibliography:

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page (launch records), Harvard University, 1997-present. Web Address when accessed: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Web Address when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.
McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Web Address when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

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