launched from Japan

HTV-X1

Success
OCT 26202500:00:15 UTC

First flight of the H3-24W configuration, which pairs two LE-9 engines with four solid rocket boosters and a wide fairing. It carried HTV-X1, the first of JAXA's new cargo ships to succeed the HTV series.

HTV-X1 berthed at the ISS on 30 October 2025 and was released on 6 March 2026. Five days later it deployed Nihon University's Ten-Koh 2 cubesat, the first use of JAXA's H-SSOD deployer.

launched from LA-Y / 2 Tanegashima

aboard H3 24W F7 into LEO

Broadcast

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Spacecraft

HTV-X HTV-X1

Space station resupply

Payloads · 7

  • 01

    CORAL

    Earth observation

  • 02

    Gxiba-1

    Earth observation

  • 03

    HMU-SAT2

    Technology demonstration

  • 04

    KNACKSAT-2

    Technology demonstration

  • 05

    LEOPARD

    Technology demonstration

  • 06

    UiTMSAT-2

    Technology demonstration

  • 07

    Ten-Koh 2

    Heliophysics

last updated Oct 31, 2026