Japan's first launch of 2024 orbited the IGS Optical-8 reconnaissance satellite for the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, an optical imaging spacecraft used to monitor regional military activity and natural disasters, into sun-synchronous orbit from Tanegashima.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 12 January 2024, 04:44 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2024-010
- Launches in 2024
- 10th of 263
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