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Space programs and missions · A guided course
A launch service from integration to retirement
Explore H-IIA’s launch-service roles, booster configurations, long-coast upper-stage upgrade, recovery from Flight 6 and the weather and environmental missions it enabled.
Suggested preparation is listed in the course · Start whenever you’re ready
H-IIA Flight 23 and its mobile launcher travel toward the Tanegashima launch pad on February 27, 2014. The GPM Core Observatory is enclosed in the fairing and is not directly visible. Photograph by NASA/Bill Ingalls. NASA educational media use. Full source frame retained; display copies resized and compressed only.
NASA / Bill Ingalls · Image source · NASA media usage guidelinesYour place in the bigger picture
Build on familiar ideas, then choose a direction to explore next. Every course remains open.
Connect a launch plume to the forces, mass, and mission choices behind it.
Trace the designs behind scientific and operational launches
Japan’s H-IIA launch program
A launch service from integration to retirement
Start whenever you’re ready. Preparation is suggested, and every course stays open.
Build the launch system behind station cargo
One suggested order from the foundations to Japan’s H-IIA launch program. Shared starting points appear once; skip anything you already know.
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