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H-IIA 204

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Status: Active. First Launch: 2006-12-16. Last Launch: 2017-08-19. Number: 4 .

3 stage vehicle consisting of 4 x H-II SRB-A + 1 x H-IIA Stage 1 + 1 x H-IIA Stage 2.

• Kiku 8 - . Payload: ETS-8. Mass: 5,817 kg (12,824 lb). Nation: Japan. Agency: JAXA. Manufacturer: Melco. Class: Technology. Type: Navigation technology satellite. Spacecraft: DS2000. USAF Sat Cat: 29656 . COSPAR: 2006-059A. Apogee: 35,798 km (22,243 mi). Perigee: 35,775 km (22,229 mi). Inclination: 0.0500 deg. Period: 1,436.11 min.

  Engineering Test Satellite-8 was a Japanese prototype/operational demonstration for a number of new technologies: a large satellite bus, large-scale deployable 40-m-span antennae, mobile satellite communications system, mobile satellite digital multimedia broadcasting, and basic positioning using high-accuracy time standard devices. It will be positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 146 degrees East. JAXA developed two portable terrestrial systems to communicate directly with the satellite - a tiny telephone and a portable laptop computer. The satellite was to have a lifetime of ten years. As of 2007 Mar 11 located at 145.97E drifting at 0.010W degrees per day.

• Telstar 12V - . Nation: Japan. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: Eurostar 3000. USAF Sat Cat: 41036 . COSPAR: 2015-068A. Apogee: 35,637 km (22,143 mi). Perigee: 3,140 km (1,950 mi). Inclination: 19.20 deg.

  Telesat of Canada's Telstar 12 Vantage comms satellite launched to geotransfer orbit in the first commercial launch of Japan's H-IIA rocket and the first use of an uprated LOX/LH2 upper stage modified for a long coast to a third burn at geotransfer apogee. The stage venting was visible to observers in the USA. Telstar 12 Vantage replaces Telstar 12 and provides Ku-band capacity to the Americas.

• Kirameki-2 - . Payload: DSN-2. Nation: Japan. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. USAF Sat Cat: 41940 . COSPAR: 2017-005A. Apogee: 35,860 km (22,280 mi). Perigee: 250 km (150 mi). Inclination: 22.00 deg.

  See DSN 2 (Kirameki 2). Satellite for the DSN Corporation, a Sky Perfect JSAT / NEC / NTT /Maeda consortium, to provide an X-band military communications satellite for the Japanese Defense Ministry. DSN 2 (Kirameki 2) was their first satellite, based on the Mitsubishi Electric DS-2000 bus.

• Michibiki-3 - . Payload: QZSS 3; QZS-3. Nation: Japan. USAF Sat Cat: 42917 . COSPAR: 2017-048A. Apogee: 35,793 km (22,240 mi). Perigee: 35,781 km (22,233 mi). Inclination: 0.0600 deg. Period: 1,436.13 min. See QZS 3 (Michibiki 3). ..