Orbited IGS Optical-6, a Japanese third-generation optical reconnaissance satellite built by Mitsubishi Electric for the Information Gathering Satellite program, used for national security and disaster monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 24th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 27 February 2018, 04:34 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2018-021
- Launches in 2018
- 21st of 114
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