Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | H-IIA 202 | GOSAT-GW Rocket Launch
GOSAT-GW (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Greenhouse gases and Water cycle), formerly known as GOSAT 3, is JAXA’s next generation satellite to monitor the greenhosue gases like carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is the follow on to the GOSAT 2 (Ibuki 2) and GCOM-W (Shizuku) missions.
GOSAT-GW will have two missions: greenhouse gases observation for Japan’s Ministry of the Environment and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and water-cycle observation for JAXA. By developing the GOSAT-GW satellite, Mitsubishi Electric will contribute to measures for preventing disasters attributed to global warming and climate change, and to advance scientific and technological methods that enable more accurate prediction of climate change.
In December 2013, Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) was selected as the prime contractor for the spacecraft and the instruments.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | H3-30 | H3-30 Test Flight Rocket Launch
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-19
* VERTECS
* HORN-L/R
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | H3-24 | HTV-X1 Rocket Launch
First flight of the upgraded Japanese HTV-X spacecraft designed to resupply the International Space Station.