H-IIA launched GOSAT-2 (Ibuki-2), Japan's second greenhouse-gas observing satellite, to monitor global CO2 and methane concentrations, the same day China launched its own ocean-monitoring CFOSAT.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.7 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 29 October 2018, 04:08 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2018-084
- Launches in 2018
- 86th of 114
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