🚀Launchpad

H-IIA 202

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Manufacturer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Family
H-II
Maiden flight
2001-08-29
Length
53 m
Diameter
4 m
Payload to LEO
10,000 kg
Payload to GTO
4,100 kg
Launches
35
Successful
35

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.