Launched Japan's classified IGS Radar-7 reconnaissance satellite for the Cabinet Satellite Information Center into sun-synchronous orbit from Tanegashima, the country's first orbital launch of 2023.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 31st
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 26 January 2023, 01:50 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2023-012
- Launches in 2023
- 14th of 223
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