State-operated launches
- Past launches
- 165 past launches
- Upcoming launches
- 13 upcoming
Steadypeak 5 · 2024
Flies H2A (retired) +8next in 10d
Active
Japan
Active spacefaring nation
H-IIA retired in June 2025 with forty-four launches in a row without a single failure — a streak nobody else has matched. Its replacement, H3, is still finding its footing through early-flight problems.
Programmesince 1963
19632028
- Other (7 rockets)
- H2A2001–2025
- Mu1966–2006
- Lambda1963–1979
- launches, home and abroad
- 168 launches
- upcoming
- 13 upcoming
- success
- 86% success
- launches, home and abroad
- 168 launches
- upcoming
- 13 upcoming
- success
- 86% success
- provider
- 1 provider
- spaceports
- 3 spaceports
3 Spaceports
Where Japan’s launches lift off.
- Past launches
- 167 past launches
- Upcoming launches
- +13 upcoming
19622029
Tanegashima
98+11
Uchinoura
66+2
Kii
3
19622029
Fleet Overview
10 rockets in Japan's fleet
Launch Activity
Past launches and what's coming upView 2026 launches →
- Feb 02202508:30UTCFeb 02202508:30UTC
- Jun 28202516:33UTCJun 28202516:33UTC
- Oct 26202500:00UTCOct 26202500:00UTC
- Dec 22202501:51UTCDec 22202501:51UTC
- Mar 05202602:10UTCMar 05202602:10UTC
- NowMay 31 · 2026
Upcoming
- Jun 10202600:53UTCJun 10202600:53UTC
- Jul2026Jul2026
- 20262026
- 20262026
Launch Providers
1 commercial provider and state-operated launches from Japan
- State-operated launches98%
- Space One2%
Every launch from Japan has been state-operated. The programme has flown 165 launches across 9 different rockets.
Space One
- Launches in 2026
- 1 in 2026
- Past launches
- 3 past launches
Steadypeak 2 · 2024
Operates Kairosflew ~3mo ago
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