H-IIA (H2A) was an 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
- 445 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- $90M
- LEO capacity
- —
- GTO capacity
- 6,000 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
5
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
100%
5 of 5
Current success streak
5
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 204 | Inmarsat-6 F1 — Success
- H-IIA 204 | Michibiki 3 (QZS-3) — Success
- H-IIA 204 | DSN 2 (Kirameki 2) — Success
- H-IIA 204 | Telstar 12 VANTAGE — Success
- H-IIA 204 | Kiku-8 — Success