H-IIA's third flight (F3), the type's first fully operational launch, orbited Japan's DRTS geostationary data-relay communications satellite together with the USERS microgravity-experiment satellite and the DASH reentry-technology demonstrator from Tanegashima.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 7 H-IIA 2024 flights
- Date and time
- 10 September 2002, 08:20 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 2024
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-042
- Launches in 2002
- 42nd of 65
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