Ldrex

Large Deployable Reflector Experiment

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General

Designation	26640 / 00081C
Launch date	20 Dec 2000
Country of origin	Japan
Mission	Technology
Perigee/Apogee	214/35786 km
Inclination	2°
Period
Launch vehicle	Ariane V138

Half scale mockup of the ETS 8 deployable antenna. It was manufactured by Toshiba. A camera was installed to check the deployement. It was attached to the ASAP 5 structure. The 6 m antenna was deployed 40 minutes after launched and later jettisoned.

The experiment was a success: it properly reported that deployment mecanism does not work!

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End of life

Out of service
Cause
Decay	21 Mar 2010

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Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor
Platform
Mass at launch	182 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension	1.8 x 0.7 x 0.7 m at launch time
Solar array	none
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime

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