(27 Jun 2025)
JAPAN H2A ROCKET
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Tobishima, Aichi Prefecture, Japan – 25 September 2024
1. Wide of 50th H2A rocket’s body parts
2. Banner, reading (Japanese) "Completion of the last H2A rocket."
3. Various of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ logo
4. Various of engine booster covered
5. Various of H2A rocket
6. Wide of first stage and second stage of H2A rocket
7. Engine booster covered
8. First stage and second stage of H2A rocket
9. Engine booster covered
10. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kenji Egawa, H2A Rocket Project Manager, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries:
“H2A has been with us for 24 years since its launch in 2001. I have personally been involved with the H2A since about the 10th rocket, but have always been a part of its improvement. So, I am emotional as the end is coming.”
11. Pan of first stage and second stage of H2A rocket, engineers in foreground
12. Engineers talking in front of second stage of H2A rocket
13. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kenji Egawa, H2A Rocket Project Manager, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries:
“The success rate and on-time rate of this rocket have been excellent, and we would like its successor, H3, to maintain that reputation.”
14. Wide of first stage and second stage of H2A rocket
15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kenji Egawa, H2A Rocket Project Manager, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries:
“ The H3 rocket has been developed with the major objective of cost reduction, and our target is to reduce the cost of the H3 to half that of the H2A. Once the 50th rocket is launched, only five have been used for overseas commercial flights. With the H3, we hope to make it accessible for customers and to have many more launches like that in the future.”
16. Various of second stage of H2A rocket
17. Pan of first stage to second stage of H2A rocket
18. Wide of first stage of H2A rocket
19. Wide of news conference
20. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Atsutoshi Tamura, Managing expert, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries:
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“H2A was a valuable rocket for us, in the sense that, it was connected with business from the technological development stage.”
21. Wide of first stage of H2A rocket
22. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kenji Egawa, H2A Rocket Project Manager, Space Systems Division, Integrated Defense & Space Systems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries:
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“I believe that the H2A has been Japan’s core rocket and has played a central role in space transportation for a long time. As Mr. Tamura said, we have grown a lot through this long experience with H2A, and I am very grateful for that.”
23. Mid of flags
24. Mid of sign, reading (Japanese) "Tobishima Plant, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries."
25. Wide of Heavy Industries’ Nagoya Aerospace Systems Works Tobishima Plant
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
Japan’s final H2A rocket launch is expected to take place on June 29.
MHI plans to send the 50th and last H2A rocket to space before fully transitioning to its successor model, the H3 rocket.
STORYLINE:
This is the core part of the rocket H2A’s body on display at the Tobishima plant in Nagoya Prefecture.
It was shown as part of a commemoration ceremony last September.
The complete rocket, once all the parts are connected, is 53 metres long, weighing 289 tons, excluding the satellite.
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