H-IIA 2024 | USERS & DRTS
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.
USERS & DRTS
USERS (Unmanned Space Experiment Recovery System) was a Japanese microgravity experimental satellite. After 8.5 months in orbit, a reentry vehicle was to be returned to earth with the materials manufacturered in space. DRTS (Data Relay & Tracking Satellite) is an inter-satellite communications experiment satellite to relay data between the target spacecraft (low earth orbit satellites, space stations, etc.) and ground stations.
H-IIA 2024
Height 53.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 5000 kg
Liftoff Thrust 0 kN
Diameter 4.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 0 kg
Liftoff Mass 347 Tonnes
Launch Success 6
Consecutive Success 3
Maiden Flight 2002-02-04
Launch Failures 1
