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M-V

In-active

IHI Corporation (IHI)

Feb. 12, 1997

Description

The M-V rocket also called Mu-5 was a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites.

Specifications

Minimum Stage
3
Max Stage
4
Length
30.8 m
Diameter
2.5 m
Fairing Diameter
2.5 m
Launch Mass
137.0 T
Thrust
3780.0 kN

Family

Name
M-V
Family
―
Variant
V
Alias
―
Full Name
M-V

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
―
Low Earth Orbit
1800.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
―
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―

IHI Corporation

Commercial

None

IHI

None

Previous Flights

flew on seven previous launch(es).

M-V | Hinode

IHI Corporation | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Sept. 22, 2006, 9:36 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Japanese solar observatory designed to stury the Sun

Low Earth Orbit

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M-V | Akari

IHI Corporation | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Feb. 21, 2006, 9:28 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Akari (ASTRO-F) was an infrared astronomy satellite developed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, in cooperation with institutes of Europe and Korea.

Low Earth Orbit

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M-V | Suzaku

IHI Corporation | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
July 10, 2005, 3:30 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-EII) was an X-ray astronomy satellite developed jointly by the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science at JAXA and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to probe high energy X-ray sources, such as supernova explosions, black holes and galactic clusters. It was launched on 10 July 2005 aboard the M-V rocket on the M-V-6 mission. After its successful launch, the satellite was renamed Suzaku after the mythical Vermilion bird of the South

Low Earth Orbit

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M-V | Hayabusa

IHI Corporation | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
May 9, 2003, 4:29 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

MUSES-C (renamed Hayabusa after launch) is a sample return mission to the asteroid. Its primary goal is to acquire and verify technology which is necessary to retrieve samples from a small body in the solar system and to bring back them to the earth.

Asteroid

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M-V | ASTRO E

IHI Corporation | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Feb. 10, 2000, 1:30 a.m.

Status: Launch Failure

Mission:

Astro E is a X-ray astronomy satellite bulit as a joint effort of NASA and the Japanese space agency ISAS. Observing the X-ray spectrum of the distant universe, Astro-E was to open a new window into the workings of black holes, neutron stars, active galaxies, and other very energetic objects. Astro E was lost in a launch vehicle failure in February 2000, but a repeat Astro E2 (renamed Suzaku after successful launch) was built to conduct the mission. It was launched in July 2005 aboard a Japanese improved M-5 rocket.

Low Earth Orbit

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M-V | Nozomi

IHI Corporation | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
July 3, 1998, 6:12 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The primary scientific objective of Nozomi program is to study the Martian upper atmosphere with emphasis on its interaction with the solar wind.

Heliocentric N/A

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M-V | Haruka

IHI Corporation | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Feb. 12, 1997, 4:50 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

HALCA (Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communication and Astronomy), a.k.a. VSOP (Very Large Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme) or Muses-B, is the first astronomical satellite dedicated to Very-Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). It was launched on its maiden flight by ISAS's M-5 [KM-V1] launch vehicle from Kagoshima Space Center on 12 February 1997.

Elliptical Orbit

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