Final flight of Japan's H-IIA rocket (F50) carried the GOSAT-GW greenhouse gas and water cycle observation satellite to sun-synchronous orbit from Tanegashima, capping a 25-year career with 49 successes in 50 launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 35th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 28 June 2025, 16:33 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2025-141
- Launches in 2025
- 147th of 329
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