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.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 2,260 kN
- Height
- 53 m
- Diameter
- 4 m
- Launch mass
- 285 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- $90M
- LEO capacity
- 10,000 kg
- GTO capacity
- 4,100 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
35
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
100%
35 of 35
Current success streak
35
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- H-IIA 202 | GOSAT-GW (Ibuki GW) — Success
- H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar 8 — Success
- H-IIA 202 | IGS Optical 8 — Success
- H-IIA 202 | XRISM & SLIM — Success
- H-IIA 202 | IGS Radar 7 — Success