Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Flight record

These are launches under MHI’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.

Operator or customer

An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, MHI is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

No scheduled flight names MHI with someone else flying it.

How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.

About MHI

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.

Upcoming launches

• H3-22 | ETS-9

  H3-22 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  2026

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: GTOVehicle file

• H3-22 | JSDF SDA satellite

  H3-22 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  H1 2027

  TBDNET HALF-YEAROrbit: GTOVehicle file

• H3-30 | IGS Optical Diversification 1

  H3-30 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  H1 2027

  TBDNET HALF-YEAROrbit: SSOVehicle file

• H3-24 | HTV-X2

  H3-24 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  2027

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: LEOVehicle file

• H3-24 | HTV-X3

  H3-24 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  2027

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: LEOVehicle file

• H3-30 | IGS Optical 9

  H3-30 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  2027

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: SSOVehicle file

• H3-30 | IGS Optical Diversification 2

  H3-30 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  2027

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: SSOVehicle file

• H3 | Mid-Inclination Rideshare

  H3 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  2027

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: LEOVehicle file

• H3 | MBR Explorer

  H3 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  T-··:··:··

  2028-03-03

  TBDNET ±1 DAYOrbit: AsteroidVehicle file

• H3-24 | DESTINY+ & RAMSES

  H3-24 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  T-··:··:··

  2028-04-20

  TBDNET ±1 DAYOrbit: AsteroidVehicle file

• H3-22 | ispace Mission 3 ULTRA

  H3-22 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  2028

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: LOVehicle file

• H3-24 | Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX)

  H3-24 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

  2028

  TBDNET YEAR ONLYOrbit: LOVehicle file

The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.

MHI in the archive

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Common questions

How many launches has Mitsubishi Heavy Industries flown?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has flown 59 launches under its own name. 57 succeeded and 2 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.

What is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries's success rate?

96.6%. That's 57 successful flights out of 59 attempts. Its last 3 launches in a row have succeeded.

When is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries's next launch?

H3-22 | ETS-9, set for 2026 from Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2. Launch Library files only the year, so the date is a placeholder. Launch times are no-earlier-than targets and can move.

Does Mitsubishi Heavy Industries fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has flown 59 launches under its own name. It's the operator on 12 scheduled flights. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.

Where is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries based?

Japan. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator, founded in 1884.