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H-IIA

In-active

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)

Feb. 26, 2005

Description

The H-IIA rocket family is an expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The liquid fuelled rocket has been used to launch satellites, lunar spacecraft and planetary science craft.

Specifications

Stages
2
Length
53.0 m
Diameter
4.0 m
Fairing Diameter
4.0 m
Launch Mass
316 T
Thrust
―

Family

Name
H-IIA
Family
―
Variant
2022
Alias
―
Full Name
H-IIA 2022

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
―
Low Earth Orbit
―
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
4500 kg
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Commercial

President: Seiji Izumisawa

MHI 1884

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.

Previous Flights

flew on three previous launch(es).

H-IIA 2022 | Kaguya

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Sept. 14, 2007, 1:31 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Kaguya, also known as SELENE, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft. Kaguya usede a suite of 15 instruments to gather scientific data on lunar origins and evolution. The main orbiter was accompanied by two smaller satellites: a relay satellite Okina and a satellite Ouna for Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations. Kaguya orbited the Moon for a year and eight months and then ended the mission via a planned impact on the lunar surface.

Lunar Orbit

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H-IIA 2022 | Daichi

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Jan. 24, 2006, 1:33 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

ALOS (Advanced Land Observation Satellite) is used for cartography, regional observation, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying. ALOS has three remote-sensing instruments: - the Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM) for digital elevation mapping with 2.5 meter resolution, - the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR-2) for precise land coverage observation with 10 meter resolution, and - the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) for day-and-night and all-weather land observation. ALOS transmitts its data via the DRTS (Kodama) satellite. The ALOS was launched by an H-2A-2022 launch vehicle from the Tanegashima Space Center. ALOS as been given the nickname Daichi. Five minutes after spacecraft separation, ALOS began to unfurl its 72-foot solar array that will provide electrical power to the craft throughout its mission. Six cameras are on-board to visually verify the correct deployment of the solar panel and various instrument antennas. ALOS lost all power on 22. April 2011, thus ending the mission.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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H-IIA 2022 | Himawari-6 (MTSAT-1R)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Japan
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Feb. 26, 2005, 9:25 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Multi-functional satellite providing communications and navigational services for aircraft, and provide weather data to users throughout the entire Asia-Pacific region, as far south as Australia / New Zealand.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

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