Launched Japan's Kirameki-3 X-band military communications satellite toward geostationary orbit for the Ministry of Defense on the H3 rocket's fourth flight from Tanegashima, completing the three-satellite Kirameki constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 7 H3-22 flights
- Date and time
- 4 November 2024, 06:48 UTC
- Rocket
- H3-22
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2024-198
- Launches in 2024
- 204th of 263
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