JAXA's H-IIA carried GCOM-W1 (Shizuku), fitted with the AMSR2 microwave radiometer to monitor global precipitation, sea ice and water vapor, alongside South Korea's KOMPSAT-3 Earth-imaging satellite as a rideshare payload.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 10th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 17 May 2012, 16:39 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2012-025
- Launches in 2012
- 26th of 78
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