
H-IIA launched Japan's JDRS-1 optical data-relay satellite from Tanegashima toward geostationary orbit, where it relays imagery from Japan's Information Gathering Satellites and other spacecraft for both military and civilian use.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 29th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 29 November 2020, 07:25 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2020-089
- Launches in 2020
- 98th of 114
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