COMPLETION OF CRITICAL OPERATIONS PHASE, GLOBAL OBSERVING SATELLITE FOR GREENHOUSE GASES AND WATER CYCLE IBUKI GW (GOSAT-GW)

TOKYO, July 1 -- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency issued the following press release:

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully confirmed the critical operations phase*1 of the Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle IBUKI GW (GOSAT-GW).

JAXA received telemetry data confirming that the deployment of the solar array paddles and a series of operations for mission payloads (the antenna deployment and the initial run-up of AMSR3*2 and release of the pointing mirror lock for TANSO-3*3 *4), have been completed, and that the satellite is in a stable condition to remain in orbit.

With this confirmation, the critical operations phase was completed. IBUKI GW (GOSAT-GW) will move on to the initial function...