ADEOS-II

ADEOS - II (English Advanced Earth Observing Satellite, japaneseみどり-II, also Midori II) is an Earth observation satellite, the Japanese space agency NASDA, the a launcher of the type H - IIA on December 14, 2002 high from the Tanegashima Space Center on a 800 km sun-synchronous orbit brought. The starting weight was 3.68 tons, the electrical performance of its solar panels 6 kilowatts. A solar storm in October 2003 destroyed the solar panels and with them the 630 million U.S. dollars expensive satellite.