H3-22 | ETS-9
Thursday, Dec 31, 2026 · 12:00 AM GMT+0000
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Mission details
- Mission
- ETS-9
- Vehicle
- H3-22
- Provider
- MHI
- Pad
- Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2
- Location
- Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
The Engineering Test Satellite 9 (ETS-9) is a JAXA project aimed to develop an advanced satellite bus, or common model, for various high-throughput satellites (HTS) for communications.
The new satellite bus by Mitsubishi Electric will focus specifically on advanced communication needs:
- Up to 25kW of power to support HTS communications
- Light mass, all-electric bus system achieved with 6kW high-power Hall thrusters (Japan-made).
- High-power Hall thrusters significantly shorten delivery of orbiting satellite compared to other manufacturer’s 4.5kW-class electric-propulsion bus systems
- The first Japanese geostationary satellite equipped with GPS receivers (Japan-made) for laborsaving autonomous orbital transfer and orbital maneuvering.