On its 47th flight, MHI's H-IIA launched JAXA's XRISM X-ray astronomy satellite, developed with NASA and ESA, together with the SLIM 'Moon Sniper' lunar lander. XRISM studies hot cosmic plasmas while SLIM aimed to demonstrate pinpoint landing on the Moon.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.1 T
- Flight
- 32nd
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 2023, 23:42 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2023-137
- Launches in 2023
- 145th of 223
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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