MTSAT

Overview

Destination: Geostationary Orbit
Mission: Communications

Geostationary Orbit Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1 Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Japanese communications satellite

H-II

Family:
Configuration:

The H-II rocket was a Japanese satellite launch system which flew seven times between 1994 and 1999 with 5 successes. It was developed by NASDA in order to give Japan a capability to launch larger satellites in the 1990s. It was the first two stage liquid fuelled rocket Japan made using only domestic technologies.

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    49.0 m
  • Diameter
    4.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    4.0 m
  • Launch Mass
    260.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    H-II
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    H-II
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    10060.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    3930.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

(MHI)

President: Seiji Izumisawa Founded: 1884 Successes: 51 Failures: 1 Pending: 15

Agency Type:

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group. MHI's products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships and space launch vehicles. Through its defense-related activities, it is the world's 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues and the largest based in Japan.

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