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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
H3-22 | VEP 4, CE-SAT-1E & TIRSAT
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
New test flight of the H3 ordered following the failure of the inaugural launch of H3 in March 2023 with ALOS-3. Main payload is VEP 4 (Vehicle Evaluation Payload 4), a 2.6 tonnes mass simulator payload that will be carried on the 2nd test flight of the H3 rocket, instead of the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite as originally planned. It will be deployed after the 2nd de-orbit burn is completed to test the payload separation mechanism. 2 hitchhiking secondary payloads have been selected in June 2023: * CE-SAT-1E - 70 kilograms class optical Earth observation satellite from Canon Electronics Inc., similar to the previously launched CE-SAT-1. * TIRSAT - 3U cubesat by Japan Space Systems and other institutes to test an infrared sensor for Earth surface observation purposes.
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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:56
SRB Separation
- T+00:03:34
Fairing Separation
- T+00:04:58
MECO
- T+00:05:05
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:05:17
SES-1
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- T+00:16:36
SECO-1
- T+00:16:57
Payload Deployment Sequence Start
- T+01:47:23
SES-2
- T+01:47:39
SECO-2
- T+01:48:19
Payload Deployment Sequence End