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While the H3-32 would have provided greater performance, JAXA cited SpaceX's experience with their Falcon 9 rocket, which routinely lifted commercial communications satellite payloads to less than the gold standard geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) of 1,500 m/s (4,900 ft/s) of delta-V remaining to get to geostationary orbit, leaving the ...
Flight No. Date / time () Rocket, Configuration Launch site / Pad Payload Payload mass Orbit Users Launch outcome TF2 (Test Flight 2) 4 February 2002
JAXA H3 project manager Masashi Okada called the result “perfect,” saying H3 cleared all missions set for Saturday's flight. ... The H3 No. 2 rocket was decorated with thousands of stickers ...
The H3 left the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan at 9:22 a.m. local time on Saturday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a statement.
When the H–1 was announced in 1986, company representative Tsuguo Tatakawe clarified that it would only be used to launch indigenous (i.e. Japanese) payloads, that only two launches per year could be mounted, and that the launch window consisted of a four-month period in which Japanese fishing fleets were not active (the falling launch boosters may damage fishing nets in the ocean waters).
JAXA's 63 m (297 ft) H3 rocket can carry a 6.5 ton payload into space, more than H-IIA's maximum of 6 tons, and fly more cheaply by adopting simpler structures and automotive-grade electronics ...
"The newborn H3 has just made its first cry", JAXA project manager Masashi Okada, who has led the decade-long development of the new rocket, told a news conference.
The H3 rocket carrying the Michibiki 6 satellite successfully lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center on a southwestern Japanese island. Everything so far has been as planned, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said.