Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
H3-30 Test Flight
SUCCESS
✓ Mission success
On 12 JUN · 00:53 UTC 2026, H3-30 delivered H3-30 Test Flight to Sun-Synchronous Orbit.
- T-0 (flown)
- 12 JUN · 00:53 UTC
- Window
- 2 hr
- Rocket
- H3-30
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Pad
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 · Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
- Payload
- H3-30 Test Flight
- Orbit
- Sun-Synchronous OrbitSSO
Mission
Test flight of the H3-30 variant of the H3 launch vehicle with 3 LE-9 engines in the first stage and no SRBs. The flight will carry a dummy main payload (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 5, VEP-5) and several hitchhiking small satellites: * PETREL * STARS-X * BRO-22 * VERTECS * HORN-L/R