🚀Launchpad

H-II

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Manufacturer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Family
H-II
Maiden flight
1994-02-03
Length
49 m
Diameter
4 m
Payload to LEO
10,060 kg
Payload to GTO
3,930 kg
Launches
7
Successful
6

The H-II rocket was a Japanese satellite launch system which flew seven times between 1994 and 1999 with 5 successes. It was developed by NASDA in order to give Japan a capability to launch larger satellites in the 1990s. It was the first two stage liquid fuelled rocket Japan made using only domestic technologies.