H-IIA launched Japan's IGS Optical-2 reconnaissance satellite from Tanegashima for the Cabinet Satellite Information Center, replacing the earlier Optical-1 spacecraft and providing roughly 1-meter resolution imagery for defense and disaster monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 35 H-IIA 202 flights
- Date and time
- 11 September 2006, 04:35 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2006-037
- Launches in 2006
- 40th of 66
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