{"city":"Tokyo","name":"Mitsubishi Heavy H3","slug":"mitsubishi-heavy-h3","facts":[{"date":"2026-08-01","type":"deployment","value":"QZS-7 successfully launched into quasi-geostationary orbit","source":"mhi.com"},{"date":"2026-07-01","type":"partnership","value":"MHI and ispace partnership for Mission 3 ULTRA H3 launch and transportation services","source":"mhi.com"},{"date":"2026-07-01","type":"contract","value":"H3 launch and transportation services contract for ispace Mission 3 ULTRA lunar lander","source":"mhi.com"},{"date":"2026-07-01","type":"customer","value":"ispace","source":"ispace/MHI"},{"date":"2026-07-01","type":"contract","value":"ispace Mission 3 ULTRA H3 launch agreement","source":"ispace/MHI"},{"date":"2026-06-01","type":"revenue_band","value":"Not separately disclosed; H3 launch-service revenue is a small, undisclosed slice of MHI's Aircraft, Defense & Space segment, so the score is below the group/segment band.","source":"Bloomberg / NASASpaceflight"}],"peers":[{"name":"SpaceX","rank":1,"slug":"spacex","score":"100"},{"name":"Avio","rank":6,"slug":"avio","score":"87"},{"name":"Blue Origin","rank":10,"slug":"blue-origin","score":"85"},{"name":"Landspace","rank":18,"slug":"landspace","score":"81.5"},{"name":"United Launch Alliance","rank":38,"slug":"united-launch-alliance","score":"76.5"},{"name":"ArianeGroup / Arianespace","rank":43,"slug":"arianegroup-arianespace","score":"76"}],"stage":"Established","state":"Tokyo","aliases":["三菱重工業"],"country":"Japan","domains":[{"why":"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries develops and operates the H3 launch vehicle and sells launch services to government and commercial customers, including ispace.","list":"Space 100","rank":21,"tier":"member","layer":"Launch","total":81,"domain":"Space","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":10,"position":10,"progress":8,"firepower":10,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Heavy & medium"}],"founded":null,"signals":[],"website":"https://mhi.com","category":"Space · Launch","categories":[{"name":"Launch services","domain":"Space","parent":"Space · Launch"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-25T23:18:47.108753+00:00","facts_total":16,"positioning":"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H3 is Japan's flagship heavy launcher, jointly developed with JAXA and operated as MHI's launch-service business. It completed successful H3 launches carrying HTV-X1 on Oct-25, QZS-6 on Feb-25, the low-cost Type 30 configuration with six small satellites on Jun-26, and QZS-7 on Aug-26, while also signing a 2028 launch contract with ispace for the ULTRA lunar lander on Jul-26. The program is structurally important for Japan's sovereign launch, defense, navigation, ISS-logistics, and emerging commercial lunar ecosystem, but its cadence and commercial economics remain less proven than SpaceX's.","sub_category":"Launch services","signals_total":0,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/mitsubishi-heavy-h3","title":"Mitsubishi Heavy H3 · space, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries develops and operates the H3 launch vehicle and sells launch services to government and commercial customers, including ispace. Space 100 rank 21 (score 81)","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}