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H-II · Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

H-IIB 304

retired
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Specifications

Status
retired
Height
56.6 m
Diameter
5.2 m
Mass
551,000 kg
Stages
2
Payload to LEO
16,500 kg
Payload to GTO
8,000 kg
First flight
2009-09-10
Total launches
9
Success / Fail
9 / 0

H-IIB (H2B) is an expendable launch system used to launch H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV, or Kounotori) towards the International Space Station. H-IIB rockets are liquid-fuelled with solid-fuel strap-on boosters and are launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi and JAXA have been primarily responsible for design, manufacture, and operation of H-IIB.

Payloads it launched · 9

HTV-9 (KOUNOTORI 9)
LEO
HTV-8 (KOUNOTORI 8)
LEO
HTV-7 (KOUNOTORI 7)
LEO
HTV-6 (KOUNOTORI 6)
LEO
HTV-5 (KOUNOTORI 5)
LEO
HTV-4 (KOUNOTORI 4)
LEO
HTV-3 (KOUNOTORI 3)
LEO
HTV-2 (KOUNOTORI 2)
LEO
HTV-1
LEO