Back كيزونا (قمر اصطناعي) Arabic Kizuna (Satellit) German Wide-band Internetworking Engineering Test and Demonstration Satellite Spanish Kizuna Finnish Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite French WINDS Galician WINDS ID きずな (人工衛星) Japanese 초고속인터넷위성 키즈나 Korean WINDS (satelita) Polish
 Launch of WINDS (Kizuna) on H-IIA Flight 14. | |
| Mission type | Communication |
|---|---|
| Operator | JAXA/NICT |
| COSPAR ID | 2008-007A |
| SATCAT no. | 32500 |
| Website | JAXA |
| Mission duration | 5 years (design) Final: 11 years, 4 days |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Bus | NX-G[1] |
| Manufacturer | NEC |
| Launch mass | 4,850 kilograms (10,690 lb) |
| BOL mass | 2,750 kilograms (6,060 lb) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 23 February 2008, 08:55 UTC |
| Rocket | H-IIA |
| Launch site | Tanegashima Y1 |
| Contractor | Mitsubishi |
| End of mission | |
| Disposal | Decommissioned |
| Deactivated | 27 February 2019, 06:54 UTC |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Geostationary |
| Longitude | 143° East |
| Semi-major axis | 42,164 kilometres (26,199 mi) |
| Perigee altitude | 35,784.1 kilometres (22,235.2 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 35,803.8 kilometres (22,247.4 mi) |
| Inclination | 0.2 ° |
| Period | 1,436.1 minutes |
| Epoch | 00:00:00 UTC 2016-08-31[2] |
WINDS (Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite, also known as Kizuna), was a Japanese communication satellite. Launch was originally scheduled for 2007.