Tag: H-IIA
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Japanese H-IIA launches IGS Optical 6 satellite
A Japanese reconnaissance satellite rode to orbit Tuesday aboard the country’s H-IIA carrier rocket. Liftoff, from the Tanegashima Space Centre, occurred at the opening of a fourteen-minute window at 12:34 local time (04:34 UTC). Tuesday’s launch deployed IGS Optical 6, part of the optical imaging component of Japan’s Joho Shushu Eisei (JSE) – or Information…
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Japanese H-IIA rocket launches GCOM-C mission
Japan launched the second satellite of its Global Change Observation Mission Saturday. The GCOM-C satellite lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Centre atop an H-IIA rocket at the start of a 22-minute window that opened at 10:26:22 local time (01:26 UTC). Saturday’s launch, also lofting the Super-Low Altitude Test Satellite (SLATS), was Japan’s seventh of…
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Japanese H-IIA launches with QZS-3
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched an H-IIA rocket on Saturday (05:30 UTC), carrying the third spacecraft for the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System of GPS augmentation satellites. The H-IIA was scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Centre with QZS-3 a week ago, before an issue was found late in the countdown. H-IIA Launch: The…
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Japanese H-IIA launches with QZS-3
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched an H-IIA rocket on Saturday (05:30 UTC), carrying the third spacecraft for the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System of GPS augmentation satellites. The H-IIA was scheduled to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Centre with QZS-3 a week ago, before an issue was found late in the countdown. H-IIA Launch: The…
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Japan’s H-IIA conducts Michibiki-2 launch
Japan’s H-IIA rocket launched the second navigation satellite in the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System in the first of three launches scheduled for Thursday. Liftoff for the Michibiki-2 satellite took place from the Tanegashima Space Centre, on schedule, at 09:17 JST (00:17 UTC). JAXA Launch: The payload of Thursday’s launch, Michibiki No.2, is the second member…
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Japanese H-IIA rocket launches ASTRO-H mission
Japan launched the ASTRO-H x-ray astronomy satellite via its H-IIA rocket Wednesday, with a launch from the country’s Tanegashima launch site occurring at 17:45 local time (08:45 UTC). ASTRO-H, which was previously known as the New X-ray Telescope (NeXT), is a high-energy astronomy mission led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). ASTRO-H Mission: JAXA’s…
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Japanese H-IIA successfully lofts Telstar 12V
Japan has conducted its first dedicated commercial satellite launch Tuesday, with an H-IIA rocket carrying a Canadian communications spacecraft, Telstar 12V, into orbit. The launch departed Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre within a 104-minute launch window, with a T-0 of 15:50 local time (06:50 UTC) following a delay caused by a boat entering the range. H-IIA…
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Japanses H-IIA lofts IGS Optical-5 satellite
Japan’s H-IIA rocket has made its second flight of the year Thursday, carrying a new-generation optical imaging satellite for the country’s military. The launch of IGS Optical-5 occurred on schedule at 10:21 local time (01:21 UTC), setting sail from the first pad of the Tanegashima Space Centre’s Yoshinobu Launch Complex. Japanese Mission: Thursday’s launch carried…
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Japanese H-IIA launches with IGS spy satellite
Japan has conducted its first launch of 2015 Sunday with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries lofting a radar reconnaissance satellite with the aid of its H-IIA carrier rocket. Liftoff, from the Tanegashima Space Centre, was on schedule, at the beginning of a thirteen-minute window that opened at 10:21 local time (01:21 UTC). Japanese Launch: The Joho Shushu…
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Japanese H-IIA kicks off Hayabusa 2’s asteroid mission
Japan has successfully launched the second sample return mission to an asteroid, with a JAXA H-IIA rocket carrying the Hayabusa 2 probe into orbit on the first leg of its journey to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3. Launch occurred on schedule at 04:22 UTC on Wednesday from Pad 1 of the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at JAXA’s…