List of JAXA launches

Launch history

1986-1992

Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site	Payload	Orbit	Launch outcome
15(F)	12 August 1986, 20:45	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	EGP (Ajisai)	LEO	Success
15(F)	9 SRMs, 2 stages
17(F)	27 August 1987, 09:20	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	ETS-5 (Kiku-5)	GTO	Success
17(F)	9 SRMs, 3 stages
18(F)	19 February 1988, 10:05	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	CS-3A (Sakura-3A)	GTO	Success
18(F)	9 SRMs, 3 stages
19(F)	16 September 1988, 09:59	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	CS-3B (Sakura-3B)	GTO	Success
19(F)	9 SRMs, 3 stages
20(F)	5 September 1989, 19:11	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	GMS-4 (Himawari-4)	GTO	Success
20(F)	6 SRMs, 3 stages
21(F)	7 February 1990, 01:33	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	MOS-1B (Momo-1B)	LEO	Success
21(F)	9 SRMs, 2 stages
22(F)	28 August 1990, 09:05	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	BS-3A (Yuri-3A)	GTO	Success
22(F)	9 SRMs, 3 stages
23(F)	25 August 1991, 08:40	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	BS-3B (Yuri-3B)	GTO	Success
23(F)	9 SRMs, 3 stages
24(F)	11 February 1992, 01:50	H-I	Osaki Launch Complex	JERS-1 (FUYO-1)	LEO	Success
24(F)	9 SRMs, 2 stages

When the H–1 was announced in 1986, company representative Tsuguo Tatakawe clarified that it would only be used to launch indigenous (i.e. Japanese) payloads, that only two launches per year could be mounted, and that the launch window consisted of a four-month period in which Japanese fishing fleets were not active (the falling launch boosters may damage fishing nets in the ocean waters).^[1]

Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
1994-1999 [edit]
TF1 (Test Flight 1)	3 February 1994 22:20	H-II	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	OREX (Orbital Re-entry Experiment) / VEP (Vehicle Evaluation Payload)	LEO / GTO			Success
TF1 (Test Flight 1)	Ryūsei and Myōjō
TF2 (Test Flight 2)	28 August 1994 07:50	H-II	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	ETS-VI (Engineering Test Satellite-VI)		GEO		Success
TF2 (Test Flight 2)	Kiku 6
TF3 (Test Flight 3)	18 March 1995 08:01	H-II	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	Geostationary Meteorological Satellite-5 (GMS-5) / Space Flyer Unit (SFU)		GEO / LEO		Success
TF3 (Test Flight 3)	Himawari 5
F4	17 August 1996 01:53	H-II	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	ADEOS I (Advanced Earth Observing Satellite) / Fuji-OSCAR 29, JAS-2		LEO		Success
F4	Midori and Fuji 3
F6	27 November 1997 21:27	H-II	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) / ETS-VII (Engineering Test Satellite-VII)		LEO		Success
F6	Orihime and Kiku 7 (Hikoboshi)
F5	21 February 1998 07:55	H-II	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	COMETS (Communications and Broadcasting Engineering Test Satellites)		GEO		Partial failure
F5	Kakehashi, Faulty brazing in second-stage engine cooling system caused engine burn through and cable damage resulting in shutdown midway through the upper stage's second burn, leaving spacecraft in elliptical LEO instead of GTO. Spacecraft thrusters raised orbit enough to complete some communications experiments.
F8	15 November 1999 07:29	H-II	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	MTSAT (Multi-functional Transport Satellite)		GEO		Failure
F8	Cavitation in the first stage hydrogen turbopump impeller caused an impeller blade to fracture, resulting in loss of fuel and rapid shutdown of the engine at T+239 seconds. The vehicle impacted the ocean 380 km at the northwest of Chichijima.
2001 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
TF1 (Test Flight 1)	29 August 2001 07:00:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	VEP 2 (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 2) / LRE				Success
TF1 (Test Flight 1)
2002 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
TF2 (Test Flight 2)	4 February 2002 02:45:00	H-IIA 2024	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	VEP 3 (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 3) / Mission Demonstration Satellite 1 (MDS-1) (Tsubasa) / DASH				Success
TF2 (Test Flight 2)
F3	10 September 2002 08:20:00	H-IIA 2024	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	USERS / DRTS (Kodama)				Success
F3
F4	14 December 2002 01:31:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	ADEOS II (Midori 2) / WEOS (Kanta-kun) / FedSat 1 / Micro LabSat 1				Success
F4
2003 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F5	28 March 2003 01:27:00	H-IIA 2024	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Optical 1 / IGS-Radar 1				Success
F5
F6	29 November 2003 04:33:00	H-IIA 2024	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Optical (2nd) / IGS-Radar (2nd)				Failure
F6	A hot gas leak from one SRB-A motor destroyed its separation system. The strap-on did not separate as planned, and the weight of the spent motor prevented the vehicle from achieving its planned height.^[2]
2005 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F7	26 February 2005 09:25:00	H-IIA 2022	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	MTSAT-1R (Himawari 6)				Success
F7
2006 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F8	24 January 2006 01:33:00	H-IIA 2022	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	ALOS (Daichi)				Success
F8
F9	18 February 2006 06:27:00	H-IIA 2024	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	MTSAT-2 (Himawari 7)				Success
F9
F10	11 September 2006 04:35:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Optical 2				Success
F10
F11	18 December 2006 06:32:00	H-IIA 204	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	ETS-VIII (Kiku 8) ^[3]		GTO		Success
F11
2007 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F12	24 February 2007 04:41:00	H-IIA 2024	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Radar 2 / IGS-Optical 3V				Success
F12
F13	14 September 2007 01:31:01	H-IIA 2022	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	SELENE (Kaguya)				Success
F13
2008 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F14	23 February 2008 08:55:00	H-IIA 2024	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	WINDS (Kizuna)				Success
F14
2009 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F15	23 January 2009 03:54:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	GOSAT (Ibuki) / SDS-1 / STARS (Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite) (Kūkai) / KKS-1 (Kiseki) / PRISM (Hitomi) / Sohla-1 (Maido 1) / SORUNSAT-1 (Kagayaki) / SPRITE-SAT (Raijin)				Success ^[4]
F15
F1	10 September 2009 17:01:46	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	HTV-1				Success
F1	First flight of H-IIB
F16	28 November 2009 01:21:00 ^[5]	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Optical 3				Success
F16
2010 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F17	20 May 2010 21:58:22 ^[6]^[7]^[8]	H-IIA 202 ^[9]	LA-Y1, Tanegashima	PLANET-C (Akatsuki) / IKAROS / UNITEC-1 (Shin'en) / Waseda-SAT2 / K-Sat (Hayato) / Negai☆″				Success
F17
F18	11 September 2010 11:17:00 ^[10]	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	QZS-1 (Michibiki)				Success
F18
2011 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F2	22 January 2011 05:37:57	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	Kounotori 2 (HTV-2)				Success
F2
F19	23 September 2011 04:36:50 ^[11]	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Optical 4				Success
F19
F20	12 December 2011 01:21:00 ^[12]	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Radar 3				Success
F20
2012 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F21	17 May 2012 16:39:00	H-IIA 202 ^[13]	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	GCOM-W1 (Shizuku) / KOMPSAT-3 (Arirang 3) / SDS-4 / HORYU-2				Success
F21
F3	21 July 2012 02:06:18	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	Kounotori 3 (HTV-3) / Raiko / We Wish / Niwaka / TechEdSat / F-1				Success
F3	CubeSats carried aboard Kounotori 3, deployed on 4 October 2012 from the ISS.
2013 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F22	27 January 2013 04:40:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Radar 4 / IGS-Optical 5V				Success
F22
F4	3 August 2013 19:48:46	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	Kounotori 4 (HTV-4) / PicoDragon / ArduSat-1 / ArduSat-X / TechEdSat-3				Success
F4	CubeSats carried aboard Kounotori 4 for deployment from the ISS.
2014 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F23	27 February 2014 18:37:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	GPM-Core / SindaiSat (Ginrei) / STARS-II (Gennai) / TeikyoSat-3 / ITF-1 (Yui) / OPUSAT (CosMoz) / INVADER / KSAT2				Success
F23
F24	24 May 2014 03:05:14	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	ALOS-2 (Daichi 2) / Raijin-2 (Rising-2) / UNIFORM-1 / SOCRATES / SPROUT				Success
F24
F25	7 October 2014 05:16:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	Himawari 8				Success
F25
F26	3 December 2014 04:22:04	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	Hayabusa 2 / Shin'en 2 / ARTSAT2-DESPATCH / PROCYON				Success
F26
2015 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F27	1 February 2015 01:21:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Radar Spare				Success
F27
F28	26 March 2015 01:21:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Optical 5				Success
F28
F5	19 August 2015 11:50:49	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	Kounotori 5 (HTV-5) / SERPENS / S-CUBE / Flock-2b x 14 / GOMX-3 / AAUSAT5				Success
F5	CubeSats carried aboard Kounotori 5 for deployment from the ISS.
F29	24 November 2015 06:50:00	H-IIA 204	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	Telstar 12 Vantage^[3]		GTO		Success
F29
2016 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F30	17 February 2016 08:45:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	ASTRO-H (Hitomi) / ChubuSat-2 (Kinshachi 2) / ChubuSat-3 (Kinshachi 3) / Horyu-4				Success
F30	The Hitomi telescope broke apart 37 days after launch.^[14]
F31	2 November 2016 06:20:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	Himawari 9				Success
F31
F6	9 December 2016 13:26:47	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	Kounotori 6 (HTV-6) / AOBA-Velox III / TuPOD / EGG / ITF-2 / STARS-C / FREEDOM / WASEDA-SAT3				Success
F6	CubeSats carried aboard Kounotori 6 for deployment from the ISS.
2017 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F32	24 January 2017 07:44:00	H-IIA 204	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	DSN-2 (Kirameki 2) ^[3]		GTO		Success
F32
F33	17 March 2017 01:20:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Radar 5				Success
F33
F34	1 June 2017 00:17:46	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	QZS-2 (Michibiki 2)				Success
F34
F35	19 August 2017 05:29:00	H-IIA 204	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	QZS-3 (Michibiki 3) ^[3]		GTO		Success
F35
F36	9 October 2017 22:01:37	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	QZS-4 (Michibiki 4)				Success
F36
F37	23 December 2017 01:26:22	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	GCOM-C (Shikisai) / SLATS (Tsubame)				Success
F37
2018 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F38	27 February 2018 04:34:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Optical 6				Success
F38
F39	12 June 2018 04:20:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Radar 6				Success
F39
F7	22 September 2018 17:52:27	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	Kounotori 7 (HTV-7) / SPATIUM-I / RSP-00 / STARS-Me				Success
F7	CubeSats carried aboard Kounotori 7 for deployment from the ISS.
F40	29 October 2018 04:08:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	GOSAT-2 (Ibuki-2) / KhalifaSat / Ten-Koh / Diwata-2B / Stars-AO (Aoi) / AUTcube2 (GamaCube)				Success
F40
2019 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F8	24 September 2019 16:05:05	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	Kounotori 8 (HTV-8) / NARSSCube-1 / AQT-D / RWASAT-1				Success
F8	CubeSats carried aboard of Kounotori 8 for deployment from the ISS.
2020 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F41	9 February 2020 01:34:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	IGS-Optical 7				Success
F41
F9	20 May 2020 17:31:00	H-IIB	Tanegashima, LA-Y2	Kounotori 9 (HTV-9)				Success
F9	Kounotori 9 launch to the ISS. The last launch of both the launch vehicle and vehicle, awaiting new fleet of HTV-X and H3.
F42	19 July 2020 21:58:14	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	Emirates Mars Mission	1350 kg	Heliocentric	Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre	Success
F42	Emirates Mars Mission launched to planet Mars.
F43	29 November 2020 07:25:00	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	JDRS/LUCAS		GTO		Success
F43
2021 [edit]
Flight No.	Date / time (UTC)	Rocket, Configuration	Launch site / Pad	Payload	Payload mass	Orbit	Users	Launch outcome
F44	26 October 2021 02:19:37	H-IIA 202	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	QZS-1R	about 4t	IGSO	Cabinet Office	Success
F44	Replacement for QZS-1 (Michibiki-1).
F45	22 December 2021 15:32:00	H-IIA 204	Tanegashima, LA-Y1	Inmarsat-6 F1	5,470 kg	GTO (supersynchronous)	Inmarsat	Success
F45	Final flight of H-IIA 204.

References

^ Japan's H–1 and H–2 rockets, Air & Space/Smithsonian, February/March 1987, p. 19
^ "Launch Result of IGS #2/H-IIA F6". JAXA. November 29, 2003. Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Space Launch Report: H-IIA/B Data Sheet^[usurped], Retrieved 20 February 2019
^ "Launch Result of the IBUKI (GOSAT) by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15". MHI and JAXA. January 23, 2009.
^ "H-IIA F16". Sorae. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18.
^ "Launch Day of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 17". JAXA. March 3, 2010.
^ "Overview of Secondary Payloads". JAXA.
^ Tariq Malik (18 May 2010). "New Venus Probe to Launch Thursday From Japan After". Space.com. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
^ Chris Bergin (17 May 2010). "JAXA launch H-IIA carrying AKATSUKI and IKAROS scrubbed". NASASpaceflight. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
^ "New Launch Day of the First Quasi-Zenith Satellite 'MICHIBIKI' by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 18". JAXA.
^ Chris Bergin (23 September 2011). "Japanese H-2A launches with new IGS military satellite". NASASpaceflight.
^ Chris Bergin (11 December 2011). "Japanese H-2A lofts IGS (Radar-3) satellite into orbit". NASASpaceflight.
^ "Launch Overview – H-IIA Launch Services Flight No.21". Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
^ Clark, Stephen (18 April 2016). "Attitude control failures led to break-up of Japanese astronomy satellite". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

[1] Japan's H–1 and H–2 rockets, Air & Space/Smithsonian, February/March 1987, p. 19

[2] "Launch Result of IGS #2/H-IIA F6". JAXA. November 29, 2003. Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2013.

[data_sheet-3] Space Launch Report: H-IIA/B Data Sheet^[usurped], Retrieved 20 February 2019

[4] "Launch Result of the IBUKI (GOSAT) by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15". MHI and JAXA. January 23, 2009.

[5] "H-IIA F16". Sorae. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18.

[6] "Launch Day of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 17". JAXA. March 3, 2010.

[7] "Overview of Secondary Payloads". JAXA.

[8] Tariq Malik (18 May 2010). "New Venus Probe to Launch Thursday From Japan After". Space.com. Retrieved 20 May 2010.

[nasa_f17-9] Chris Bergin (17 May 2010). "JAXA launch H-IIA carrying AKATSUKI and IKAROS scrubbed". NASASpaceflight. Retrieved 17 May 2010.

[10] "New Launch Day of the First Quasi-Zenith Satellite 'MICHIBIKI' by H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 18". JAXA.

[11] Chris Bergin (23 September 2011). "Japanese H-2A launches with new IGS military satellite". NASASpaceflight.

[12] Chris Bergin (11 December 2011). "Japanese H-2A lofts IGS (Radar-3) satellite into orbit". NASASpaceflight.

[13] "Launch Overview – H-IIA Launch Services Flight No.21". Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Retrieved April 15, 2012.

[clark-20160418-14] Clark, Stephen (18 April 2016). "Attitude control failures led to break-up of Japanese astronomy satellite". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

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1986-1992

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2019

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