H-II – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Family: H-II
- Length: 49 m
- Diameter: 4 m
- Launch Mass: 260 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 10060 kg
The H-II, manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries established in 1884, undertook its inaugural launch on 02/03/1994. Notably, H-II has 6 successful launches and 1 failed attempts, with a cumulative tally of 7 launches, currently with 0 pending launches in the pipeline.
The H-II rocket was a Japanese satellite launch system which flew seven times between 1994 and 1999 with 5 successes. It was developed by NASDA in order to give Japan a capability to launch larger satellites in the 1990s. It was the first two stage liquid fuelled rocket Japan made using only domestic technologies.
