H-IIA rocket launched Himawari-8, a next-generation geostationary weather satellite for the Japan Meteorological Agency providing high-resolution imagery of typhoons and severe weather across East Asia and the Western Pacific.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 7 October 2014, 05:16 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2014-060
- Launches in 2014
- 61st of 92
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