SFU Space Flyer Unit Credit - NASDA

Carried materials, astronomy, biological experiments; released and later retrieved by space shuttle.

Typical orbit: 471 km x 483 km at 29 degrees inclination. Mass: 4,000 kg (8,800 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: H-2.

• 1995 March 18 - SFU - Launch Site: Tanegashima. Launch Vehicle: H-2. Mass: 4,000 kg (8,800 lb). Perigee: 471 km (292 mi). Apogee: 483 km (300 mi). Inclination: 28.50 deg. Period: 94.10 min.

  Space Flyer Unit; carried materials, astronomy, biological experiments; retrieved by STS-72 1/20/96.

• Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

• JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

• McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.