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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.
Uncrewed cargo resupply mission to International Space Station delayed from June 2012.
Serial HTV-4
Launch Crew Count 0
Status Single Use
Landing Time 2013-09-07T06:37:00+0000
Height 56.60 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 8000 kg
Liftoff Thrust 9000 kN
Diameter 5.20 Meters
Mass To LEO 16500 kg
Liftoff Mass 551 Tonnes
Launch Success 9
Consecutive Success 9
Maiden Flight 2009-09-10
Launch Failures 0
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.