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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)

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三菱重工業名古屋航空宇宙システム製作所 飛島工場

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is a Japanese multinational engineering and electronics corporation and a key player in the space industry. As a launch service provider, MHI produces the H-IIA and H3 launch vehicles, offering services to organizations like JAXA, the UAE Space Agency, and Eutelsat. MHI is also involved in the International Space Station program, contributing equipment and technologies and partnering with companies like Sierra Space for future space station development.

commercialFounded 1884
History · 3 eventsJun 1, 1964 · Mitsubishi Heavy Industries splits into three companies (1950) and re-merges to reform Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (1964)
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is providing a dedicated launch service for the I-6 F1 launch using an H-IIA Launch Vehicle configured as H2A204/4S with four SRB-A solid rocket boosters and a 4-meter-diameter payload fairing.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.7Nov 4, 2021Inmarsat Selects Mitsubishi Heavy Industries To Launch The I-6 F1 Satellite

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. manufactured the Michibiki No. 1 satellite.

CapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Oct 26, 2021An H2A Launch Vehicle Pushes Another GPS Satellite To Orbit For Japan

On 2021-07-27, Astroscale Japan signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to cooperate on active debris removal and other projects for improving space environmental protection.

RelationshipsGeneralValue 4.3Jul 27, 2021Astroscale Advances On-Orbit Servicing Technologies with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Government of Japan

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries provides rocket launch and launch transportation services and has extensive experience as a launch service provider.

CapabilityValue 2.0Jul 27, 2021アストロスケール、三菱重工と軌道上デブリ除去に関するMOUを締結 宇宙の持続利用を目指し、環境改善のための協議を開始

Inmarsat is partnering with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to develop the InRange telemetry relay system.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2Mar 19, 2021Inmarsat gets funding to develop satellite-based telemetry relay network for rocket launches

The first stage of the 5.2-meter-diameter H3 launcher was unveiled at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Tobishima plant in Aichi Prefecture on 2021-01-24.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Jan 26, 2021JAXA ships new H3 rocket to Tanegashima Space Center for testing

The first Inmarsat-6 satellite is built by Airbus Defence & Space and is due to be launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries later in 2021.

PlanCapabilityRelationshipsValue 4.0Jan 6, 2021Inmarsat Will Expand Their GX Satellite Fleet

Hayabusa2 launched on a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket in December 2014.

GeneralPlanValue 4.0Dec 5, 2020Hayabusa2 delivers asteroid samples to Earth after six-year voyage

Inmarsat’s Inmarsat-6 F1 is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-2A rocket and Inmarsat-6 F2 is scheduled for launch in 2021 on a to-be-announced launcher, with both satellites sourced from Airbus.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.5Nov 26, 2019Ariane 5 launches satellites for Egypt, Inmarsat

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries could upgrade the H3 rocket to deliver cargo to the moon as soon as 2025.

PlanValue 3.5Oct 25, 2019Mitsubishi Heavy Industries mulls upgraded H3 rocket variants for lunar missions

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries could use a single H3-derived rocket with three first-stage boosters strapped together, analogous to United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy or SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, to launch to the lunar Gateway or deliver landers directly to lunar orbit.

CapabilityPlanValue 2.0Oct 25, 2019Mitsubishi Heavy Industries mulls upgraded H3 rocket variants for lunar missions

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries operates the H-2 rocket family.

CapabilityValue 3.5Sep 20, 2019Japanese cargo spacecraft launch rescheduled after pad fire

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is planning two commercial H-2A launches in 2020 for the Inmarsat-6 communications satellite and the UAE Mars orbiter Hope.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Sep 11, 2019Launch pad fire scrubs Japanese ISS launch

Neither Mitsubishi Heavy Industries nor the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency set a new launch date for the HTV-8 mission after the 2019-09-10 platform fire.

PlanValue 3.0Sep 11, 2019Launch pad fire scrubs Japanese ISS launch

SDS-4 was launched in 2012 as a rideshare on a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H2A rocket and carries an automatic identification system payload for ship tracking.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.2Aug 30, 2019Sky Perfect JSAT, challenged by TV business, hedges bets on HAPS, 5G, HTS and smallsats

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is scheduled to launch Inmarsat-6A on an H2A rocket in 2020.

PlanValue 4.0Mar 7, 2019Inmarsat to place GX Flex next-gen satellite system order this year

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has been designing the H3 rocket since 2014 as a single replacement for the H2-A and H2-B rockets.

PlanGeneralValue 3.0Dec 6, 2018Inmarsat books Japanese H3 rocket’s first commercial launch

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre’s KhalifaSat Earth-observation satellite in October as a co-passenger with Japan’s GOSAT-2 on an H2-A.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Dec 6, 2018Inmarsat books Japanese H3 rocket’s first commercial launch

Participants on the panel, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and China Great Wall Industry Corporation, are developing new generations of launch vehicles.

PlanGeneralValue 2.3Sep 12, 2018Amid GEO downturn, launch operators look for new markets

The two Inmarsat-6 spacecraft are scheduled to launch in 2020 and 2021, with the first contracted for an H2A launch from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

PlanRelationshipsValue 4.5May 3, 2018Inmarsat hints at “GX Flex” next-gen satellite investment
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