Company

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Japan · named on public Moon flights

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries operates Japan’s H-IIA launch service and flew JAXA SLIM on H-IIA F47 (7 Sep 2023). On the moonimports tunnel MHI is the enable-path launch contractor for the SLIM stack. On SLIM, MHI’s Isahaya plant also manufactured the integral propellant tank (common bulkhead, structural load path) and the pulse-throttled main engine (ceramic combustor) - JAXA letter of thanks, 1 Aug 2024. Those are degree-2 manufacturing jobs under the lander.

Hardware

SLIM integral propellant tank

Part · MHI Nagasaki (Isahaya) developed and manufactured SLIM’s fuel/oxidizer integral tank with a common bulkhead - also a primary structure load path. · SLIM

SLIM main engine

Part · MHI manufactured SLIM’s pulse-throttled main engine (ceramic combustor, Isahaya plant) used for trajectory control and landing Δv. · SLIM

Jobs

Flights

SLIM2023-09-07 · JAXA SLIM precision soft-landing demo.

Sources

This is the public record. Jobs and flights a source named.

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