{"id":12956,"date":"2019-09-11T00:41:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-h-2b-rocket-prepared-for-launch-at-tanegashima\/"},"modified":"2019-09-11T00:41:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:41:22","slug":"photos-h-2b-rocket-prepared-for-launch-at-tanegashima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-h-2b-rocket-prepared-for-launch-at-tanegashima\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: H-2B rocket prepared for launch at Tanegashima"},"content":{"rendered":"

These photos show the stacking of Japan\u2019s eighth H-2B rocket inside an assembly building at the Tanegashima Space Center over the past few weeks, followed by rollout of the 186-foot-tall (56.6-meter) vehicle to its launch pad Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The H-2B rocket is set for launch at 2133:29 GMT (5:33:29 p.m. EDT) Tuesday with Japan\u2019s eighth HTV cargo ship for the International Space Station. The mission will deliver several tons of batteries, supplies and experiments to the orbiting research outpost.<\/p>\n

Launch preparations at Tanegashima began in July with the lifting of the H-2B\u2019s hydrogen-fueled first stage atop a mobile launch table inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. Teams then hoisted the second stage atop the rocket, and installed four strap-on solid rocket boosters around the base of the core stage.<\/p>\n

The first stage is powered by two hydrogen-fueled LE-7A main engines. Each can produce roughly 247,000 pounds of thrust in vacuum conditions, and slightly less at sea level. A single LE-5B upper stage engine will generate around 31,000 pounds of thrust in vacuum conditions.<\/p>\n

Each of the four solid rocket boosters, designed SRB-A3s, can produce around 518,000 pounds of vacuum thrust.<\/p>\n

At sea level conditions, the four boosters and core stage engines will produce around 2 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.<\/p>\n

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The HTV cargo ship inside the H-2B rocket\u2019s payload fairing. Credit: MHI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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These photos show the stacking of Japan\u2019s eighth H-2B rocket inside an assembly building at the Tanegashima Space Center over the past few weeks, followed by rollout of the 186-foot-tall (56.6-meter) vehicle to its launch pad Tuesday. The H-2B rocket is set for launch at 2133:29 GMT (5:33:29 p.m. EDT) Tuesday with Japan\u2019s eighth HTV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2217,2517,1839,2462,717,1602,377,877],"class_list":["post-12956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-h-2b","tag-h-2b-f8","tag-htv","tag-htv-8","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss-cargo","tag-japan","tag-jaxa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}