Japan's second H-IIA test flight (H-IIA F2) launched from Tanegashima carrying the Mission Demonstration test Satellite-1 (MDS-1) technology testbed and the DASH re-entry capsule, a precursor experiment for the MUSES-C (Hayabusa) asteroid sample-return mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 H-IIA 2024 flights
- Date and time
- 4 February 2002, 02:45 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 2024
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2002-003
- Launches in 2002
- 3rd of 65
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