Location

Pad record

Coordinates: 30.4008° N
130.9777° E
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Status: Active
Spaceport: Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Country: Japan
Pad operator: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
LL2 pad tally: 57 upstream count
Reference: Wikipedia

Who launches from here

1 operator

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 31

Vehicles flown

2 types

H-IIA 50 H-II 7

Launches per year

decided flights

1994Peak 2017, 6 launches2025

Orbits delivered

8 destinations

Sun-Synchronous Orbit 25Geostationary Transfer Orbit 12Low Earth Orbit 6Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit 5Geostationary Orbit 3Heliocentric N/A 3Lunar Orbit 2Elliptical Orbit 1

Flight record

57 flights

Date	Mission	Vehicle	Operator	Orbit	Outcome
2025-06-28	H-IIA 202 \| GOSAT-GW (Ibuki GW)	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2024-09-26	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Radar 8	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2024-01-12	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Optical 8	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2023-09-06	H-IIA 202 \| XRISM & SLIM	H-IIA	–	Lunar Orbit	Success
2023-01-26	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Radar 7	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2021-12-22	H-IIA 204 \| Inmarsat-6 F1	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2021-10-26	H-IIA 202 \| QZS-1R	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit	Success
2020-11-29	H-IIA 202 \| JDRS-1	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2020-07-19	H-IIA 202 \| Hope (Emirates Mars Mission)	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Heliocentric N/A	Success
2020-02-09	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Optical 7	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2018-10-29	H-IIA 202 \| KhalifaSat & GOSAT-2	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2018-06-12	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Radar 6	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2018-02-27	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Optical 6	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2017-12-23	H-IIA 202 \| GCOM-C1 & SLATS	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2017-10-09	H-IIA 202 \| Michibiki 4 (QZS-4)	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit	Success
2017-08-19	H-IIA 204 \| Michibiki 3 (QZS-3)	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2017-06-01	H-IIA 202 \| Michibiki 2 (QZS-2)	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit	Success
2017-03-17	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Radar 5	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2017-01-24	H-IIA 204 \| DSN 2 (Kirameki 2)	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2016-11-02	H-IIA 202 \| Himawari-9	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2016-02-17	H-IIA 202 \| Astro-H (Hitomi)	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Low Earth Orbit	Success
2015-11-24	H-IIA 204 \| Telstar 12 VANTAGE	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2015-03-26	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Optical 5	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2015-02-01	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Radar Spare	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2014-12-03	H-IIA 202 \| Hayabusa-2	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Heliocentric N/A	Success
2014-10-07	H-IIA 202 \| Himawari-8	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2014-05-24	H-IIA 202 \| ALOS-2	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2014-02-27	H-IIA 202 \| GPM-Core	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Low Earth Orbit	Success
2013-01-27	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Radar 4 & IGS Optical 5V	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2012-05-17	H-IIA 202 \| GCOM-W1	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2011-12-12	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Radar 3	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2011-09-23	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Optical 4	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2010-09-11	H-IIA 202 \| Michibiki (QZS-1)	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit	Success
2010-05-20	H-IIA 202 \| Akatsuki (Planet-C)	H-IIA	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Heliocentric N/A	Success
2009-11-28	H-IIA 202 \| IGS-Optical 3	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2009-01-23	H-IIA 202 \| GOSAT	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2008-02-23	H-IIA 2024 \| Kizuna	H-IIA	–	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2007-09-14	H-IIA 2022 \| Kaguya	H-IIA	–	Lunar Orbit	Success
2007-02-24	H-IIA 2024 \| IGS Radar 2 & IGS Optical 3V	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2006-12-18	H-IIA 204 \| Kiku-8	H-IIA	–	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2006-09-11	H-IIA 202 \| IGS Optical 2	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2006-02-18	H-IIA 2024 \| Himawari-7 (MTSAT-2)	H-IIA	–	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2006-01-24	H-IIA 2022 \| Daichi	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2005-02-26	H-IIA 2022 \| Himawari-6 (MTSAT-1R)	H-IIA	–	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2003-11-29	H-IIA 2024 \| IGS Radar (2) & IGS Optical (2)	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Failure
2003-03-28	H-IIA 2024 \| IGS Radar 1 & IGS Optical 1	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2002-12-14	H-IIA 202 \| Midori-2	H-IIA	–	Sun-Synchronous Orbit	Success
2002-09-10	H-IIA 2024 \| USERS & DRTS	H-IIA	–	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2002-02-04	H-IIA 2024 \| Tsubasa	H-IIA	–	Elliptical Orbit	Success
2001-08-29	H-IIA 202 \| LRE	H-IIA	–	Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit	Success
1999-11-15	H-II \| MTSAT	H-II	–	Geostationary Orbit	Failure
1998-02-21	H-II \| Kakehashi	H-II	–	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1997-11-27	H-II \| TRMM & ETS 7	H-II	–	Low Earth Orbit	Success
1996-08-17	H-II \| Midori	H-II	–	Low Earth Orbit	Success
1995-03-18	H-II \| SFU & Himawari 5	H-II	–	Low Earth Orbit	Success
1994-08-28	H-II \| Kiku-6	H-II	–	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1994-02-03	H-II \| Myojo & Ryusei	H-II	–	Low Earth Orbit	Success

Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.

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