Sakigake (MS-T5), was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and was lauched January 7, 1985 from Kagoshima Space Center. It carried out a flyby of Comet Halley on March 11, 1986 at a distance of 6.99 million km. There were plans for the spacecraft to go on to an encounter with 21P/Giacobini-Zinner in 1998 but they had to be abandoned due to lack of propellant. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Unmanned space missions are those using remote-controlled spacecraft. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... M-V rocket at the Uchinoura Space Center (Febr. ... Comet Halley as taken with the Halley Multicolor Camera on the ESA Giotto mission. ... Jump to: navigation, search 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To help compare different distances this page lists lengths starting at 109 m (1 million km). ... Comet Giacobini-Zinner was discovered by Michel Giacobini (Nice, France) in Aquarius on December 20, 1900. ...
Unlike its twin Suisei it carried no imaging instruments in its instrument payload. Suisei spacecraft Suisei (PLANET-A) (すいせい PLANET-A) was a Japanese space probe sent to study Comet Halley. ...
Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary mission, was essentially a test to prepare to send a second, almost identical probe called Suisei to study comet Halley.
Both Sakigake and Suisei were part of the international fleet sent to study comet Halley as it passed through the inner solar system in the mid 1980s.
Sakigake's main role was to provide a distant reference point to help scientists interpret data sent from probes that flew much closer to the nucleus of the comet.
The New Party Sakigake (新党さきがけ Shinto Sakigake) was a Japanese political party that broke away from the Liberal Democratic Party on June 22, 1993.
The Sakigake Party took part in the government of Murayama Tomiichi, which was basically a government coalition with the LDP and the Japan Socialist Party.
In 1997, the New Party Sakigake had 2 members in the House of Representatives and 3 members in the House of Councillors, which was good for them, especially after the LDP became the ruling party again.
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