The H3 Launch Vehicle is an expendable launch system in development in Japan. H3 rockets are liquid-propellant rockets with strap-on solid rocket boosters and are planned to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi and the JAXA have been responsible for the design, manufacture, and operation of the H3.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 4,413 kN
- Height
- 63 m
- Diameter
- 5.27 m
- Launch mass
- 274 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- $50M
- LEO capacity
- —
- GTO capacity
- 2,300 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- 4,000 kg
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
100%
1 of 1
Current success streak
1
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
- H3-30 | H3-30 Test Flight — Success