Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4)

Third flight of Japan's H3 rocket delivered JAXA's ALOS-4 'Daichi-4' radar Earth-observation satellite to sun-synchronous orbit from Tanegashima; the satellite images a 200 km swath, four times wider than its predecessor ALOS-2.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

SSO

Sun-synchronous orbit

Payload to orbit

3 T

Flight

3rd

of 7 H3-22 flights

Date and time

1 July 2024, 03:06 UTC

Rocket

H3-22

Builder

MHI

Launch site

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Payload

Earth Science

International designator

2024-123

Launches in 2024

127th of 263

See it in orbit

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