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The H3 Launch Vehicle is a Japanese expendable launch system. H3 launch vehicles are liquid-propellant rockets with strap-on solid rocket boosters and are launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and JAXA are responsible for the design, manufacture, and operation of the H3. The H3 is the world's first ...
Rocket, Configuration Launch site / Pad Payload Payload mass Orbit Users Launch outcome F5 28 March 2003 01:27:00 H-IIA 2024 Tanegashima, LA-Y1: IGS-Optical 1 / IGS-Radar 1: Success F6 29 November 2003 04:33:00 H-IIA 2024 Tanegashima, LA-Y1: IGS-Optical (2nd) / IGS-Radar (2nd) Failure A hot gas leak from one SRB-A motor destroyed its separation ...
Officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. celebrate after two functioning microsatellites were detached from Japan's No. 2 H3 rocket following its ...
The 63 m (297 ft) H3 is designed to carry a 6.5 metric ton payload and over the long-term, the agency wants to reduce per-launch cost to as low as five billion yen ($33 million) - half of what an ...
The launch was the third of the H3 system, after the successful one on Feb 17. and the shocking failed debut flight a year earlier when the rocket had to be destroyed with its payload — a ...
The Liftoff of H-IIA Flight 19 The H-IIA rocket lineup The H-IIA Engine at Miraikan. H-IIA (H-2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Japan's flagship H3 rocket reached orbit and released two small observation satellites in a key second test following a failed debut launch last year, buoying hope for the country in the global ...
The LE-9 is a liquid cryogenic rocket engine burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in an expander bleed cycle. Two or three will be used to power the core stage of the H3 launch vehicle. [1] [2] [5] The newly developed LE-9 engine is the most important factor in achieving cost reduction, improved safety and increased thrust.