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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.
Second flight of the upgraded Japanese HTV-X spacecraft designed to resupply the International Space Station.
Height 63.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 7900 kg
Liftoff Thrust 12142 kN
Diameter 5.27 Meters
Mass To LEO 0 kg
Liftoff Mass 0 Tonnes
Launch Success 0
Consecutive Success 0
Maiden Flight Unknown
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.