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H-IIB 304

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Manufacturer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Family
H-II
Maiden flight
2009-09-10
Length
56.6 m
Diameter
5.2 m
Payload to LEO
16,500 kg
Payload to GTO
8,000 kg
Launches
9
Successful
9

H-IIB (H2B) is an expendable launch system used to launch H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV, or Kounotori) towards the International Space Station. H-IIB rockets are liquid-fuelled with solid-fuel strap-on boosters and are launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi and JAXA have been primarily responsible for design, manufacture, and operation of H-IIB.