Japan's H-II rocket launched the Engineering Test Satellite VI (Kiku-6) from Tanegashima; its apogee kick motor failed to ignite, stranding it in a highly elliptical orbit short of geostationary, though its ion engine subsystem was later tested successfully on orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 7 H-II flights
- Date and time
- 28 August 1994, 07:50 UTC
- Rocket
- H-II
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-056
- Launches in 1994
- 59th of 93
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