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H-IIA 2024 | USERS & DRTS

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency · H-IIA 2024 · Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's 10th launch · 2nd this year · humanity's 4,553rd orbital launch attempt

September 10, 2002Add to calendar
Success

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: Sep 10, 08:20Sep 10, 08:20 UTC

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USERS & DRTS

USERS (Unmanned Space Experiment Recovery System) was a Japanese microgravity experimental satellite. After 8.5 months in orbit, a reentry vehicle was to be returned to earth with the materials manufacturered in space. DRTS (Data Relay & Tracking Satellite) is an inter-satellite communications experiment satellite to relay data between the target spacecraft (low earth orbit satellites, space stations, etc.) and ground stations.

Communications · Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)

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Pad — Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1

57 launches from this pad · 98 from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

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