Japan's H-IIA launched the Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter alongside IKAROS, the world's first spacecraft to demonstrate solar-sail propulsion in interplanetary space, plus several university-built secondary payloads.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 20 May 2010, 21:58 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2010-020
- Launches in 2010
- 21st of 74
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