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H-IIAロケット32号機打上げ / H-2A Rocket F32 Launch

UPDATE:打ち上げのタイムコードは0:40:00からになります。超望遠のリプレイ映像は1:03:00からになります。 H-IIAロケット32号機によるXバンド防衛通信衛星きらめき２号の打上げを中継します。打上げ時刻：2017年1月24日16時44分～17時58分（予定）ペイロード：Xバンド防衛通信衛星きらめき２号

DSN 2 (Kirameki 2)

Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Communications

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

DSN 2, also known as Kirameki 2, is a geostationary communications satellite to be used for military communications by the Japanese military.

H-IIA

Family:
Configuration: 204

H-IIA (H2A) was an expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The liquid-fueled H-IIA rockets have been used to launch satellites into geostationary orbit, to launch a lunar orbiting spacecraft, and to launch Akatsuki, which studied the planet Venus. Launches occur at the Tanegashima Space Center.

Specifications

Stages
2
Length
53.0 m
Diameter
4.0 m
Fairing Diameter
4.0 m
Launch Mass
445.0 T
Thrust
2260.0 kN

Family

Name
H-IIA
Family
―
Variant
204
Alias
―
Full Name
H-IIA 204

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
$90000000
Low Earth Orbit
―
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
6000.0 kg
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

(MHI)

President: Seiji Izumisawa Founded: 1884 Successes: 54 Failures: 2 Pending: 9

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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