H-IIA launched Japan's MTSAT-1R (Himawari-6) satellite from Tanegashima for the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau and Meteorological Agency, providing weather monitoring and aviation navigation services; it was JAXA's first successful H-IIA flight since a November 2003 failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 H-IIA 2022 flights
- Date and time
- 26 February 2005, 09:25 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 2022
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2005-006
- Launches in 2005
- 6th of 56
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