JAXA's Engineering Test Satellite 9 (Kiku-9), a Mitsubishi Electric all-electric high-throughput geostationary bus, will fly on an H3-22 to geostationary transfer orbit then raise itself to GEO with Hall thrusters. It will demonstrate 25 kW-class power, a full-digital communications payload, and Japan's first GEO GPS receivers for autonomous orbit control.
- Status
- Date TBD
- Target orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit