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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
08:55:00
Saturday February 23, 2008
Last flight of H-IIA 2024.
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
Agency
MHIRocket
Height: 53m
Payload to Orbit
GTO: 5,000 kg
Fairing
Diameter: 4.07m
Height: 12m
Stages
2
Strap-ons
4
14th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2008
7th
Orbital launch attempt