
The H-IIA rocket family is an expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The liquid fuelled rocket has been used to launch satellites, lunar spacecraft and planetary science craft.
Specifications
- Thrust
- —
- Height
- 53 m
- Diameter
- 4 m
- Launch mass
- 347 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- —
- GTO capacity
- 5,000 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
7
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
85.7%
6 of 7
Current success streak
3
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 2024 | Kizuna — Success
- H-IIA 2024 | IGS Radar 2 & IGS Optical 3V — Success
- H-IIA 2024 | Himawari-7 (MTSAT-2) — Success
- H-IIA 2024 | IGS Radar (2) & IGS Optical (2) — Failure
- H-IIA 2024 | IGS Radar 1 & IGS Optical 1 — Success