Maiden flight of Japan's H-II rocket from Tanegashima, carrying the OREX orbital re-entry experiment capsule and the VEP-2/Myojo technology demonstrator to validate Japan's first fully domestically developed liquid-fuel launch vehicle.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 H-II flights
- Date and time
- 3 February 1994, 22:20 UTC
- Rocket
- H-II
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1994-007
- Launches in 1994
- 8th of 93
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