(NET) H3-30S • PETREL & STARS-X

(NET) H3-30S • PETREL & STARS-X

A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H3 rocket will launch on a test flight for the core-only variant, lifting a collection of smallsats to orbit. The mission is designated as H3F6. Proposed payloads are PETREL (Tokyo Institute of Technology, ~50kg), STARS-X (Shizuoka University, ~50kg), VERTECS (Kyushu Institute of Technology, 6U CubeSat), HORN L/R (BULL, Japan, 6U CubeSats x 2) and BRO-19 (Unseen Labs, France, 8U CubeSat). Additionally it will carry the Vehicle Evaluation Payload-5 (VEP-5). The launcher will fly as 30S variant with three main engines, zero solid strap-on boosters and a short fairing. Static fire: https://youtu.be/5lyNnmqd_C0 https://youtu.be/NZUE8efzPV4 - Delayed from August.

📍 Yoshinobu Launch Complex 2 - Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, 〒891-3703 Kagoshima, Kumage District, Minamitane, Kukinaga, 麻津

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