M-V
In-activeIHI 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
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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
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Name
M-V -
Family
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Variant
V -
Alias
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Full Name
M-V
Payload Capacity
-
Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
1800.0 kg -
Geostationary Transfer
Orbit
― -
Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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IHI Corporation
Commercial
None
IHINone
M-V | Hinode
IHI Corporation | JapanUchinoura Space Center, Japan
Sept. 22, 2006, 9:36 p.m.
M-V | Akari
IHI Corporation | JapanUchinoura Space Center, Japan
Feb. 21, 2006, 9:28 p.m.
M-V | Suzaku
IHI Corporation | JapanUchinoura 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 OrbitM-V | Hayabusa
IHI Corporation | JapanUchinoura 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.
AsteroidM-V | ASTRO E
IHI Corporation | JapanUchinoura 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 OrbitM-V | Nozomi
IHI Corporation | JapanUchinoura Space Center, Japan
July 3, 1998, 6:12 p.m.
M-V | Haruka
IHI Corporation | JapanUchinoura 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.
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