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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group. MHI's products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships and space launch vehicles. Through its defense-related activities, it is the world's 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues and the largest based in Japan.
JERS 1 (Japanese Earth Resources Satellite) is an Earth Observation Satellite to cover the global land area for national land survey, agriculture, forestry, and fishery, environmental protection, disaster protection, and coastal monitoring, etc. focusing on observation around the world and resource exploitation.
Height 42.00 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 1100 kg
Liftoff Thrust 0 kN
Diameter 2.44 Meters
Mass To LEO 3200 kg
Liftoff Mass 142 Tonnes
Launch Success 9
Consecutive Success 9
Maiden Flight 1986-08-12
Launch Failures 0