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先進レーダ衛星「だいち4号」(ALOS-4)/H3ロケット3号機打上げライブ中継

先進レーダ衛星「だいち4号」(ALOS-4)を搭載したH3ロケット3号機の打上げの様子を、種子島宇宙センターよりライブ配信します。English → https://www.youtube.com/live/rrUP9faAq3M配信予定:2024年7月1日11:00頃~打上げ時間帯:12時6分42秒~12時19...

Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4)

Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Earth Science

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4) is a Japanese satellite designed to observe the Earth's surface using a phased array type L-band synthetic aperture radar (PALSAR-3).

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • July 1, 2024, 6:23 a.m.

Launch success with satellite solar panels deployed and in proper attitude control.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 1, 2024, 3:26 a.m.

Spacecraft separation.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 1, 2024, 3:07 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • July 1, 2024, 1:52 a.m.

Official Webcast by JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構 has started


Cosmic_Penguin • June 28, 2024, 5:20 a.m.

Delayed to July 1st due to launch site weather.


H3-22

Family:
Configuration: 22

The H3 Launch Vehicle is a Japanese expendable launch system. Each H3 booster configuration has a two-digit and a letter designation that indicates the features of that configuration. The first digit represents the number of LE-9 engines on the main stage, either "2" or "3". The second digit indicates the number of SRB-3 solid rocket boosters attached to the base of the rocket, and can be "0", "2" or "4". All layouts of solid boosters are symmetrical. The letter in the end shows the length of the payload fairing, either short "S" or long "L". For example, an H3-24L has two engines, four solid rocket boosters, and a long fairing, whereas an H3-30S has three engines, no solid rocket boosters, and a short fairing.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    63.0 m
  • Diameter
    5.27 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.27 m
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
    7542.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    H3-22
  • Family
  • Variant
    22
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    H3-22
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $50000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    5400.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

(MHI)

President: Seiji Izumisawa Founded: 1884 Successes: 53 Failures: 1 Pending: 13

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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