Second flight of Japan's M-V rocket, launching the Nozomi (Planet-B) probe from Kagoshima, Japan's first mission to Mars, intended to study the planet's upper atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 664 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 7 M-V flights
- Date and time
- 3 July 1998, 18:12 UTC
- Rocket
- M-V
- Builder
- IHI
- Launch site
- Mu Center, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-041
- Launches in 1998
- 42nd of 82
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