H-IIB 304 (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
Photo Credit: JAXA
The H-IIB 304, manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries established in 1884, undertook its inaugural launch on 09/10/2009, is non-reusable and is inactive.
H-IIB 304 has 9 successful launches and 0 failed attempts, with a cumulative tally of 9 launches, currently with 0 pending launches in the pipeline.
H-IIB (H2B) is an expendable launch system used to launch H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV, or Kounotori) towards the International Space Station. H-IIB rockets are liquid-fuelled with solid-fuel strap-on boosters and are launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi and JAXA have been primarily responsible for design, manufacture, and operation of H-IIB.
- Length: 56.6 m
- Diameter: 5.2 m
- Launch Mass: 551 T
- LEO Capacity: 16500 kg
- GTO Capacity: 8000 kg
- Launch Cost: $112,500,000
Manufacturer
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
President: Seiji Izumisawa
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group. n nMHI's products include aerospace components, air conditioners, aircraft, automotive components, forklift trucks, hydraulic equipment, machine tools, missiles, power generation equipment, printing machines, ships and space launch vehicles. Through its defense-related activities, it is the world's 23rd-largest defense contractor measured by 2011 defense revenues and the largest based in Japan.
