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              National Space Development Agency of Japan
                            Press Release
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December 14, 2002
National Space Development Agency of Japan

           ADEOS-II (or"Midori II") Orbit Calculation Result

The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) confirmed that
the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (or gMidori IIg) launched
at 10:31 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2002 (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the 
Tanegashima Space Centre was injected into the planned orbit.  The 
orbit calculation result is as follows.

                                                Planned value
      Apogee altitude:           820 km            (820 km)
      Perigee altitude:          803 km            (803 km)
      Inclination:         98.7 degrees      (98.7 degrees)
      Revolution period     101 minutes       (101 minutes)

It is also confirmed that the solar array paddle generates 6200 watts 
(planned value: 5700W) of power.

Next report is scheduled to be issued at 2:00 p.m. on Dec. 15 (JST).

It was confirmed that the solar array paddle (PDL) operates normally. 
But, some data of the PDL tension monitoring system were found out of 
specification and NASDA continues monitoring of the data. 

An error flag was found in the telemetry data of the Advanced 
Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR), one of the mission instruments. 
NASDA continues monitoring other AMSR telemetry data and judges that 
the instrument is normal.

Launching Information on web site : Count Down
http://h2a.nasda.go.jp/index_e.html

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Date of Issue : December 14, 2002

Publisher : Public Relations Office
            National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)
            28F World Trade Center Bldg.,
            2-4-1 Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8060
            Japan
            TEL:+81-3-3438-6111

NASDA Home Page :
http://www.nasda.go.jp/index_e.html

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