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H3-30 | H3-30 Test Flight
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries · H3-30 · Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries's 57th launch · 1st this year · humanity's 7,310th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Jun 12, 00:53 – Jun 12, 02:52 UTC
Flight preview
H3-30 Test Flight
Test flight of the H3-30 variant of the H3 launch vehicle with 3 LE-9 engines in the first stage and no SRBs. The flight will carry a dummy main payload (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 5, VEP-5) and several hitchhiking small satellites: * PETREL * STARS-X * BRO-22 * VERTECS * HORN-L/R
Test Flight · Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Booster
No booster details available.
Watch
- Launch live streaming of H3 Launch Vehicle flight No.6, 30 configuration Test Vehicle（English） — JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構
- H3ロケット6号機(30形態試験機)打上げライブ中継（日本語） — JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構
- 2026.6.12 8:30～ H３ロケット6号機 「VEP-5」打上げH3 Rocket F6 Launch — NVS
Flight timeline
- P0DLiftoff
- T+3M12SFairing Separation
- T+3M34SMECO
- T+3M42SStage 2 Separation
- T+3M54SSES-1
- T+15M15SSECO-1
- T+16M16SPayload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+30M6SPayload Deployment Sequence End
- T+1H44M58SSES-2
- T+1H45M16SSECO-2
Updates
Launch success.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/12/2026 · source
Liftoff.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/12/2026 · source
Official Webcast by JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構 has started
LL2 · 6/11/2026 · source
Confirmed rescheduled for June 12.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/9/2026 · source
Launch delayed due to launch site weather.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/8/2026 · source
GO for launch on June 10.
Cosmic_Penguin · 4/24/2026 · source
NET Q2 2026/JFY 2026.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/1/2025 · source
Delayed till after HTV-X 1 launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 8/22/2025 · source
NET Q3, after H-IIA F50.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/10/2025 · source
NET 1H 2025.
Cosmic_Penguin · 12/10/2024 · source
News
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Pad — Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2
Local pad time: Jun 12, 9:53 AM GMT+9
17 launches from this pad · 98 from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
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