RetiredMitsubishi Heavy Industries / JAXAFirst Launch: 2001-08-29
H-IIA
Japan's primary launch vehicle for two decades, used for lunar, planetary, and Earth observation missions before being succeeded by the H3.
SpaceStats Reliability & Flight Record
TOTAL LAUNCHES
50
Orbital missions
SUCCESSFUL
49
1 failures
SUCCESS RATE
98.0%
LANDINGS
0
Expendable Vehicle
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries / JAXAFeatured Photography
H-IIA Launching SLIM Lunar Lander and XRISM
JAXA / MHI
Technical & Propulsion Specifications
Operator: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries / JAXAVehicle Dimensions & Mass
- Overall Height
- 53 m
- Body Diameter
- 4 m
- Gross Lift-off Mass
- 445 t
- Stages Count
- 2
- Fairing Diameter
- 4 m
Stage 1 (Booster)
- Recovery Mode
- Expendable
Stage 2 & Capacities
- LEO Capacity
- 15 t
- GTO Capacity
- 6 t
- Cost per Launch
- $90,000,000
- LEO Price / kg
- ~$6,000 / kg
Fleet Deployment & Economics Suite
Model Satellite Constellations or Payload Charters with H-IIA
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High-Resolution Photo Gallery & Media
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Liftoff2023-09-07H-IIA Launching SLIM Lunar Lander and XRISM
Japan's H-IIA Flight 47 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima launching the SLIM Moon sniper and XRISM X-ray observatory.
JAXA / MHI
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Pad2019-10-24H-IIA on Yoshinobu Pad 1 Tanegashima
H-IIA rocket on the coastal Yoshinobu Launch Complex at Tanegashima Space Center surrounded by ocean cliffs.
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Liftoff2017-12-23H-IIA Flight 37 Liftoff Over the Pacific
H-IIA ascending into clear blue skies over the Pacific Ocean from southern Japan.
JAXA / Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Source SpaceStats Launch Manifest & Database
0 mission records cataloged in database
No individual manifest entries logged in database for H-IIA.
Summary stats and flight achievements are detailed in the overview above.