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>The four configurations of Japan's new H3 rocket, with varying numbers of core stage engines and solid rocket boosters, and short and long payload fairings.
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The long-term goal for JAXA and MHI is to reduce the cost of an H3 launch to less than half that of an H-IIA mission, with a target of 5 billion yen ($33 million) per flight for the lightest version of the H3, without any solid rocket boosters. In that configuration, the H3 can deliver a payload of more than 4 metric tons (8,800 pounds) into a Sun-synchronous polar orbit a few hundred miles above Earth.