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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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "H-1 R/B(MABES)". REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING. Retrieved 2010-03-18.
  2. ^ "Past Projects - Satellites and Spacecraft". JAXA. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
  3. ^ "MABES (Jindai)". GUNTER'S SPACE PAGE. Retrieved 2013-08-13.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MABES