* Astronomy

The HITSAT Satellite that was launched on the  22nd September 2006, from the Uchinoura Space Centre, was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 18th June 2008 @ 08:49 UTC ± 1 hour


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Predicted Decay Location    9.7° N, 75.8° E
Inclination    98.2°
Revolution Number    9873

TLE Data

HITSAT
1 29484U 06041F   08170.27591928  .21901596  31637-5  19690-3 0  4662
2 29484 098.2496 292.5583 0013872 275.6258 084.5236 16.51113477 98738
1 29484U 06041F   08170.21530878  .14774525  31532-5  20109-3 0  4655
2 29484 098.2489 292.4754 0015890 286.7569 073.6349 16.48139474 98723
1 29484U 06041F   08170.09369478  .08807778  31316-5  22261-3 0  4647
2 29484 098.2457 292.3133 0017537 291.8388 068.2562 16.44280743 98701
1 29484U 06041F   08169.91093915  .07149977  31088-5  35013-3 0  4639
2 29484 098.2499 292.0753 0016861 300.9002 059.2119 16.41051298 98678
1 29484U 06041F   08169.84991318  .04894407  31057-5  29577-3 0  4620
2 29484 098.2495 291.9895 0018802 304.8236 055.0605 16.39799782 98665

HITSAT was developed by the student association 'Hokkaido Space Union' of the Hokkaido Institute of Technology.
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