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Specifications
- Status
- retired
- Height
- 53 m
- Diameter
- 4 m
- Mass
- 316,000 kg
- Stages
- 2
- Payload to GTO
- 4,500 kg
- First flight
- 2005-02-26
- Total launches
- 3
- Success / Fail
- 3 / 0
The H-IIA rocket family is an expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The liquid fuelled rocket has been used to launch satellites, lunar spacecraft and planetary science craft.
Propulsion
First stage
LE-7A870 kN
LH2 / LOX · staged-combustion
Mitsubishi / IHIIsp 440s (vac)since 2001
Second stage
LE-5B137 kN
LH2 / LOX · expander-bleed
MitsubishiIsp 447s (vac)since 2001