Inaugural flight of Japan's H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima, carrying the VEP-2 vehicle evaluation payload and the LRE laser-ranging satellite to verify the new booster's guidance, structural and staging performance.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 86 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 2001, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2001-038
- Launches in 2001
- 38th of 59
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