Launched Japan's ETS-VIII (Kiku 8) engineering test satellite from Tanegashima on the debut flight of the four-booster H-IIA 204 configuration, testing large deployable mesh antennas for mobile satellite communications from geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.8 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 5 H-IIA 204 flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 2006, 06:32 UTC
- Rocket
- H-IIA 204
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-059
- Launches in 2006
- 62nd of 66
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