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H3ロケット6号機(30形態試験機)打上げライブ中継(日本語)

2026年6月12日(金)、H3ロケット6号機(30形態試験機)の打上げの様子です。 English → https://youtube.com/live/HSiaGTea1rc?feature=share 配信日時:2026年6月12日(金)9時00分頃~ 打上げ時刻:9時53分59秒(日本標準時) 場所:種子島宇宙センター ▼JAXA公式チャンネルはこちら https://www.youtube.com/user/jaxachannel https://www.youtube.com/@JAXA-LiveEvent ▼JAXA(国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) https://www.jaxa.jp/ https://global.jaxa.jp/

2026.6.12 8:30~ H3ロケット6号機 「VEP-5」打上げH3 Rocket F6 Launch

H3ロケット6号機の打上げの様子を現地、種子島宇宙センターからライブ配信します。 The launch of H3 Rocket F6 will be broadcast live from the Tanegashima Space Center. 打上げ予定日(Launch Date):2026.06.12 打上げ予定時刻(Launch Time):09:53'59" +0900 (JST) 打上げ時間帯 : 9:53'59"~11:52'46" 予備期間(Preliminary duration): 2026.06.13~2026.06.30 2026.07.09~2026.07.31 ペイロード衛星(Payload):性能確認用ペイロード「VEP-5」 打上げ前会見 Pre Launch Briefing https://www.youtube.com/live/YDbJmX4l1Wo 機体移動 transfer operation https://www.youtube.com/live/tPjYOe8BIPc 見守る配信 watch over the rocket before launch https://www.youtube.com/live/XmgarnBtHTA 打上げ Launch https://www.youtube.com/live/w1FoLijNoUE …

H3-30 Test Flight

Overview

Destination: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Sun-Synchronous Orbit Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

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

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • April 24, 2026, 6:32 a.m.

GO for launch on June 10.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 1, 2025, 2:32 a.m.

NET Q2 2026/JFY 2026.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 10, 2025, 8:27 a.m.

NET Q3, after H-IIA F50.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 8, 2026, 10:04 a.m.

Launch delayed due to launch site weather.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 9, 2026, 5:09 a.m.

Confirmed rescheduled for June 12.


H3-30

Family:
Configuration: 30

The H3 Launch Vehicle is an expendable launch system in development in Japan. H3 rockets are liquid-propellant rockets with strap-on solid rocket boosters and are planned to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi and the JAXA have been responsible for the design, manufacture, and operation of the H3.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    63.0 m
  • Diameter
    5.27 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.27 m
  • Launch Mass
    274.0 T
  • Thrust
    4413.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    H3-30
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    30
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    H3-30
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $50000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    ―
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    2300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    4000.0 kg

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

(MHI)

President: Seiji Izumisawa Founded: 1884 Successes: 56 Failures: 2 Pending: 13

Agency Type:

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.

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