MABES

MABES

Mission type	Technology development/test satellite
Operator	NASDA
COSPAR ID	1986-061C
SATCAT no.	16910
Start of mission
Launch date	12 August 1986, 20:45 (1986-08-12UTC20:45Z) UTC
Rocket	H-I
Launch site	Tanegashima Osaki
Contractor	Mitsubishi
End of mission
Disposal	Decommissioned
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	low Earth
Perigee altitude	1,489.6 kilometres (925.6 mi) [1]
Apogee altitude	1,061.8 kilometres (659.8 mi) [1]
Inclination	50.0 degrees [1]
Period	116.8 minutes [1]

Magnetic Bearing Flywheel Experimental System (MABES), also known as Jindai (じんだい) is a National Space Development Agency of Japan(NASDA) satellite mission. It conducted experiments on the levitation of the magnetic bearing flywheel in a zero-G environment, and tested the function of the launch lock mechanism.^[2]

On 12 August 1986, Jindai was launched from Tanegashima Space Center aboard the maiden flight of H-I rocket, along with Ajisai and Fuji.

Jindai is attached to the second stage of the H-1 rocket,^[3] and as of 2013, still remains in low Earth orbit.^[1]