Japan's H-IIA rocket launched Himawari-9, JAXA's second next-generation geostationary weather satellite, from Tanegashima; it stayed in orbital standby as a spare until succeeding Himawari-8 operationally years later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 19th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 2 November 2016, 06:20 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2016-064
- Launches in 2016
- 65th of 85
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