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Rocket file · LV-322

H-IIA 2024

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries · H-II · RETIRED

H-IIA 2024 is an expendable launch vehicle built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. It stands 53.0 m tall, first flew on 4 February 2002. It has flown 7 times with 6 successes, a success rate of 85.7%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
Height53.0 m
Diameter4.0 m
Payload to LEONOT ON FILE
Payload to GTO5,000 kg
Maiden flight4 February 2002
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights7
Successful6
Failed1
Success rate85.7%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
Variant2024

About H-IIA

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.

Upcoming flights

Manifest

EMPTY

H-IIA is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

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.

H-2AF48
H-2AF48ネコビデオビジュアルソリューションズ · CC BY-SA 4.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
At Tokyo 2024 378
At Tokyo 2024 378Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
At Tokyo 2024 382
At Tokyo 2024 382Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0Wikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many times has H-IIA 2024 flown?
7 times, with 6 successes and 1 failures.
What is H-IIA 2024's success rate?
85.7%. That's 6 successful flights out of 7 attempts.
How much can H-IIA 2024 lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 lists H-IIA 2024 at no figure to low Earth orbit and 5,000 kg to geostationary transfer orbit.
Is H-IIA 2024 reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists H-IIA 2024 as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.