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Himawari 8

completedLaunch 2014-060
Launched 10/7/2014HEOService CGSat GTO O
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Payloads
Assets deployed on this mission, enriched from spacecraft records.
1 payload
Himawari-8
active
Earth Observation
GEO
Himawari / GMS weather satellites
Launch Details
Launch Date
10/7/2014
Launch ID
2014-060
Launch Profile
Sat GTO O
Service Type
CG
Orbit
HEO
Launch Stack
Operator
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
Launch Vehicle
H-IIA 202
Launch Site
Yoshinobu Launch Complex, Osaki Site, Tanegashima Space Center (Tanegashima Space Center, Tanegashima, Nippon)J
Payload Summary
Payload Count
1
Constellations
1
Payload Status
active 1
Payload Mission Types
Earth Observation 1
Track
Mentions
7
All verified mentions of this mission in source documents.

The ABI is the primary payload for the United States’ GOES-R series and Japan’s Himawari-8/9 and South Korea’s GEO-KOMPSAT-2A.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.5Dec 13, 2025L3Harris Technologies Completes Critical Design Review For JMA’s Himawari-10 Instruments

The Himawari-10 imager will offer observation wavelength bands and resolutions superior to those of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 and will gather two-dimensional information about cloud and water-vapor distribution and land, sea, and cloud temperatures from visible to infrared measurements.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.2Mar 24, 2023Mitsubishi Electric Secures Contract for Building Japan's Next Weather Satellite

Himawari-10 is a successor to the Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites currently operating in geostationary orbit.

GeneralValue 2.8Mar 24, 2023Mitsubishi Electric Secures Contract for Building Japan's Next Weather Satellite

Himawari-10 is a successor to the Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, which are currently operating in geostationary orbit.

GeneralCapabilityValue 3.5Mar 15, 2023Mitsubishi Electric wins Japanese meteorological satellite contract

NOAA upgraded its Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting computer model for the 2020 hurricane season to ingest data from GOES-16 and GOES-17 as well as NOAA-20, Suomi NPP, Himawari-8, Metop spacecraft, and COSMIC-2.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.6Jul 6, 2020Just in time for severe weather: Radio occultation data feeds NOAA weather models

NOAA has begun acquiring data from about a half dozen satellites flown by international partners, including Japan’s Himawari‑8 and India’s Scatterometer Satellite.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 3.5May 13, 2019Dozens of satellites could feed NOAA’s future weather models

Himawari‑8 provides NOAA with observations from a vantage point west of GOES West.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0May 13, 2019Dozens of satellites could feed NOAA’s future weather models