H-IIA launched the IGS Radar-3 reconnaissance satellite for Japan's Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center from Tanegashima, adding radar-imaging capability to the country's classified Information Gathering Satellite constellation used for defense and disaster monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 12 December 2011, 01:21 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2011-075
- Launches in 2011
- 78th of 84
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas