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.
MHI'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.
