Japan's H-I rocket launched GMS-4 (Himawari 4) from Tanegashima, a geostationary meteorological satellite that extended Japan's weather-observation coverage over the western Pacific after reaching geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 725 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 9 H-I flights
- Date and time
- 5 September 1989, 19:11 UTC
- Rocket
- H-I
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Osaki Launch Complex, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1989-070
- Launches in 1989
- 71st of 102
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