H-IIB
JPN Wikipedia 
Built & Operated By
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Commercial · founded 1884
Family
H-II
variant 304
Maiden Flight
10 SEP 2009
About
H-IIB (H2B) is an expendable launch system used to launch H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV, or Kounotori) towards the International Space Station. H-IIB rockets are liquid-fuelled with solid-fuel strap-on boosters and are launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Mitsubishi and JAXA have been primarily responsible for design, manufacture, and operation of H-IIB.
Vehicle Specifications
Height
56.6 m
Diameter
5.2 m
Launch Mass
551 T
Thrust
9,000 kN
Stages
2
Configuration
Expendable
Launch Record
Total Launches
9
Successful
9
Failed
0
Consecutive
9
Performance
To LEO
16,500 kg
To GTO
8,000 kg
Launch Cost
$112.5M