H3-22 | VEP 4, CE-SAT-1E & TIRSAT
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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.
VEP 4, CE-SAT-1E & TIRSAT
New test flight of the H3 ordered following the failure of the inaugural launch of H3 in March 2023 with ALOS-3. Main payload is VEP 4 (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 4), a 2.6 tonnes mass simulator payload that will be carried on the 2nd test flight of the H3 rocket, instead of the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite as originally planned. It will be deployed after the 2nd de-orbit burn is completed to test the payload separation mechanism. 2 hitchhiking secondary payloads have been selected in June 2023: * CE-SAT-1E - 70 kilograms class optical Earth observation satellite from Canon Electronics Inc., similar to the previously launched CE-SAT-1. * TIRSAT - 3U cubesat by Japan Space Systems and other institutes to test an infrared sensor for Earth surface observation purposes.
H3-22
Height 63.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 5400 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7542 kN
Diameter 5.27 Meters
Mass To LEO 0 kg
Liftoff Mass 0 Tonnes
Launch Success 3
Consecutive Success 3
Maiden Flight 2023-03-07
Launch Failures 1
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-17T03:41:13+0000
Launch success, all payloads separated into planned orbits.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-17T00:23:26+0000
Liftoff.
LL2
2024-02-16T23:02:56+0000
Livestream has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-14T05:05:36+0000
Rescheduled for February 17.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-13T05:36:41+0000
Delayed from February 15 due to launch site weather, new launch date TBD.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-28T02:48:17+0000
Added launch window and payload.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-27T16:51:57+0000
NET February 15, 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-11-13T03:28:45+0000
No longer scheduled in 2023 (Q1 2024 is inferred from previous reports of launch within Fiscal Year 2023 in Japan).
Nosu
2023-09-11T16:05:16+0000
Targeting 2023
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-05-25T04:02:20+0000
Added launch per Japanese government decision to de-manifest ALOS-4 from the 2nd launch of H3 and replace it with a new test launch in the -22 configuration.
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