Satellite · NORAD 29656 · COSPAR 2006-059A
KIKU-8 (ETS-VIII)
- Operator Japan
- Constellation —
- Country Japan
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
11.72°
Period
1.0 d
1,454.4 min
Perigee
36,122km
Apogee
36,167km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 11.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- KIKU-8 (ETS-VIII)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- JPN · Japan
- Country
- Japan JP
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 18 Dec 2006
- COSPAR launch id
- 2006-059
- Launch site
- Tanegashima Space Center
Objects from the same launch · 1
- H-2A R/B29657Rocket bodyInactive
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 29656
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2006-059A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQZXWENWV0EEATTWTYE
- Canonical slug
- kiku-8-ets-viii-29656
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.