H3-30 Test Flight

Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

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

Test flight of the H3-30 variant of the H3 launch vehicle with 3 LE-9 engines in the first stage and no SRBs. The flight will carry a dummy main payload (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 5, VEP-5) and several hitchhiking small satellites: * PETREL * STARS-X * BRO-22 * VERTECS * HORN-L/R

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 24, 2026, 6:32 a.m.

GO for launch on June 10.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 1, 2025, 2:32 a.m.

NET Q2 2026/JFY 2026.


Cosmic_Penguin • Aug. 22, 2025, 5:21 a.m.

Delayed till after HTV-X 1 launch.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 10, 2025, 8:27 a.m.

NET Q3, after H-IIA F50.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 10, 2024, 2:06 p.m.

NET 1H 2025.


H3-30

Family:
Configuration: 30

The H3 Launch Vehicle is an expendable launch system in development in Japan. H3 rockets are liquid-propellant rockets with strap-on solid rocket boosters and are planned to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi and the JAXA have been responsible for the design, manufacture, and operation of the H3.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    63.0 m
  • Diameter
    5.27 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.27 m
  • Launch Mass
    274.0 T
  • Thrust
    4413.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    H3-30
  • Family
  • Variant
    30
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    H3-30
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $50000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    2300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    4000.0 kg

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

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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