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Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyLaunch FailureGovernment/Top SecretH-IIA 2024 · 2
Launched 2003-11-29 04:33 UTCYoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
One of the SRBs failed to separate from the 1st stage.
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Launch failure
Target: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
H-IIA 2024 lifted off with IGS Radar (2) & IGS Optical (2), but the launch failed.
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No cause has been given yet. What Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
Destroyed by range safety after solid booster nozzle burn-through resulted in motor not separating from core.
Launch Provider
Government · Japan · Founded 2003 · Administrator Hiroshi Yamakawa
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.
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Height
53m
Diameter
4m
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