Launched IGS-Radar 8, a Japanese radar reconnaissance satellite for the Cabinet Satellite Information Center, from Tanegashima into sun-synchronous orbit for intelligence gathering and disaster monitoring. This was the penultimate flight of the H-IIA rocket.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 34th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 2024, 05:24 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2024-176
- Launches in 2024
- 181st of 263
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