launched from Japan

GCOM-W1

Success
MAY 17201216:39:00 UTC

H-IIA lifted Shizuku, a Japanese satellite whose AMSR2 radiometer measures precipitation, water vapor, sea surface temperature, sea ice and snow depth, together with South Korea's KOMPSAT-3 Earth observation satellite and two small secondary satellites.

launched from LA-Y / 1 Tanegashima

aboard H2A 202 into SSO

Broadcast

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Payloads · 4

  • 01

    SDS-4

    Technology demonstration

  • 02

    Horyu-2

    Technology demonstration

  • 03

    GCOM-W1 (Shizuku)

    Earth observation

  • 04

    Arirang-3

    Earth observation

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