WINDS

Kizuna (Japaneseきずな), the meaning of the German is connectedness, or WINDS (English Wideband Internetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite ) is a Japanese communications satellite, which started with an H- IIA launch vehicle on 23 February 2008 by the Tanegashima Space Center been.

According to the JAXA Kizuna will provide when using a 45 - inch satellite antenna has a download speed of 155 Mb / s. For the industrial sector, a bandwidth of 1.2 Gb / s is specified at a 5 - meter antenna.