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This Is The Dragon 1/400 H-IIA Rocket w/Launch Pad (Space)56327
Features:
- Fully detailed 1/400 H-IIA Rocket
- Mobile launch pad included
- Pre-assembled
The 1/400 scale model is beautifully recreated in miniature. As Dragon has never
made a model of this type of rocket before, every detail has been newly tooled
from scratch. The fully finished model is accurately painted and it carries
suitable markings and livery. The H-IIA rocket is made even more spectacular by
the inclusion of its associated mobile launch pad. This impressive new model
from Dragon is ready for blastoff from Japan!
Dragon is launching onto the market another 1/400 scale model in its ever
expanding Space Collection. The new item is the H-IIA, an expendable space
rocket from Japan that has been employed to launch satellites into geostationary
orbit, launch lunar orbiting spacecraft, and even send an interplanetary space
probe to Venus. Although once operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA), after privatization the 53m-long H-IIA rocket system is now operated by
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from the Tanegashima Space Center on an island 115km
south of Kyushu. The H-IIA is a two-stage rocket, but modules can be added on
according to the mission and payload. The first H-IIA launch took place in
August 2001, and 17 out of 18 launches thus far have been successful.
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