Launched ALOS (Daichi), JAXA's Advanced Land Observing Satellite, carrying the PRISM, AVNIR-2 and PALSAR instruments for high-resolution mapping, disaster monitoring and resource surveying from sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 H-IIA 2022 flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 2006, 01:33 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 2022
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2006-002
- Launches in 2006
- 2nd of 66
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