Michibiki-4 (QZS-4), the fourth satellite of Japan's Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, completed the initial four-satellite QZSS constellation ahead of full operational GPS-augmentation service in April 2018.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 9 October 2017, 22:01 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2017-062
- Launches in 2017
- 65th of 90
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