Lift of Time:
Launch Window:
Launch Pad:
Launch Facility:
NET April 2023
To be determined
Yoshinobu Launch Complex
Tanegashima
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.
H-IIA (H2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The liquid-fueled H-IIA rockets have been used to launch satellites into geostationary orbit, to launch a lunar orbiting spacecraft, and to launch Akatsuki, which studied the planet Venus. Launches occur at the Tanegashima Space Center.
The LE-7A designed for the H-II series of launch vehicles.
The LE-5 models were developed in Japan to meet the need for an upper stage propulsion system for the H-I and H-II series of launch vehicles.
Rocket:
H-IIA 202
Yoshinobu Launch Complex
Tanegashima, Japan