Maiden flight of the boosterless H3-30S configuration returned Japan's H3 to flight from Tanegashima, flying on three LE-9 engines alone in Japan's first all-liquid-propellant orbital launch and carrying six small rideshare satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only H3-30 flight
- Date and time
- 12 June 2026, 00:53 UTC
- Rocket
- H3-30
- Builder
- MHI
- Launch site
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2026-132
- Launches in 2026
- 138th of 243
See it in orbit
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