Japan's H-IIA rocket launched the QZS-1R (Michibiki-1R) navigation satellite from Tanegashima, replacing the original QZS-1 in the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System that augments GPS coverage over Japan and Oceania.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 30th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 26 October 2021, 02:19 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2021-096
- Launches in 2021
- 105th of 146
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