Deployed MTSAT-2 (later Himawari-7) into geostationary transfer orbit for Japan's transport ministry and meteorological agency, combining air-traffic communications, navigation and tracking with a weather-satellite imaging mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 H-IIA 2024 flights
- Date and time
- 18 February 2006, 06:27 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 2024
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2006-004
- Launches in 2006
- 4th of 66
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