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Sakigake Mission
Sakigake (MS-T5) was a test spacecraft designed by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) to encounter comet 1P/Halley. Its launch was a test to confirm the performance of the newly developed ISAS launch system before the system was used to launch the Suisei spacecraft on 18 August 1985.
Sakigake (MS-T5) was launched from Kagoshima Space Center on 8 January 1985. The spacecraft carried three instruments to measure wave spectra, solar wind ions, and interplanetary magnetic fields. Sakigake flew by comet 1P/Halley at a distance of about 7 million kilometers on 11 March 1986.
Telemetry contact was lost with Sakigake on 15 November 1995. Future missions of the spacecraft had included a flyby of comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova on 3 February 1996, and a flyby of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner on 29 November 1998.
The SBN is the PDS node leading the efforts to restore and archive the data from the small body missions such as the Sakigake mission.
Instruments
- Instrument Details (Data from these instruments are archived at SBN.)
- Magnetometer (IMF)
- Solar Wind Experiment (SOW)
- Other Instruments (Spacecraft has other instruments, data from which are archived at another PDS node.)
- Plasma Wave Probe (PWP) - Plasma wave spectra of the cometary object over a frequency range of 70 Hz-200 kHz
Data Sets
1P/Halley Encounter
Other Target Observations
Related Datasets
Use the Small Bodies Data Ferret to find other datasets for this mission/target.
