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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Plans More Powerful H3 To Cut Costs

Bradley Perrett October 29, 2020
Tanegashima Space Center
The movable launcher for the H3 built at Tanegashima Space Center.
Credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries hopes to begin developing an upgrade for the H3 medium space launcher in 2022, only a year after the first flight, with the aim of driving payload up and unit costs down. Volume available for the payload will rise by more than one-half, and mass capability of the maximum...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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