Thursday 16 February 2012

Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) - Optical-4

Japan has launched a new Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) known as Optical-4 and the launch vehicle used is  H-2A (H-IIA).  It did show the vehicle successfully lifted off from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC)  in Kagoshima Prefectureat 04:36 UTC on Friday.

H-2A's first stage has a length of 37.2 meters, a diameter of 4 meters and a mass of 114 tons.
The stage burns a mixture of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, developing a liftoff thrust of 1,098 kN.
The  burning time is of 390 seconds.


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