Kizuna

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

08:55:00

Saturday February 23, 2008

Mission Details

Launch Notes

Last flight of H-IIA 2024.

Kizuna

Wiki

WINDS, also called Kizuna, is currently under joint development by JAXA and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, as part of the e-Japan Priority Policy Program of the Japanese government's IT strategy headquarters. WINDS was launched by an H-IIA Launch Vehicle in 2008 to establish the world's most advanced information and telecommunications network. It is expected that this information and telecommunications network's speed and capacity will be much higher than anything achieved previously. The WINDS satellite communication system aims for a maximum speed of 155 Mbps (receiving) / 6 Mbps (transmitting) for households with 45-centimeter aperture antennas (the same size as existing Communications Satellite antennas), and ultra-fast 1.2 Gbps transmission for offices with five-meter antennas.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

4,850 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
H-IIA 2024

Active 2002 to 2008

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries logo

Agency

MHI

Rocket

Height: 53m

Payload to Orbit

GTO: 5,000 kg

Fairing

Diameter: 4.07m

Height: 12m

Stages

2

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

LA-Y1

Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Fastest Turnaround

25 days 4 hours

Stats

H-IIA


14th

Mission

1st

Mission of 2008

2008


7th

Orbital launch attempt