Japan Space Launch Flight History Page 2 of 2
                      Partial Orbital Failure List

Date        Vehicle          ID      Site       Payload             Failure Description                      Result#
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9/26/1966   Lambda-4S     L-4S-1     KA L       Lambda 4S-1         4th stg attitude control failure           FTO 
12/20/1966  Lambda-4S     L-4S-2     KA L       Lambda 4S-2         4th stg failed to ignite                   FTO
4/13/1967   Lambda-4S     L-4S-3     KA L       Lambda 4S-3         4th stg failed to ignite                   FTO
9/22/1969   Lambda 4S     L-4S-4     KA L       Lambda 4S-4         3rd/4th stgs collided                      FTO
9/25/1970   Mu-4S         M-4S-1     KA M       SS                  4th stg failed to ignite                   FTO
2/4/1976    Mu-3C         M-3C-3     KA M       Corsa               failed to orbit                            FTO
2/6/1979    N-1           N-1-5F     TA N       ECS-a               Star 37 apogee kick stg collided with ECS (EEO)
1/15/1995   Mu-3S-2       M-3S2-8    KA M1      Express-1           failed to orbit                            FTO 
2/21/1998   H-II          H-2-5F     TA Y       COMETS              2nd stg LE-5A engine nozzle 2nd burn      (EEO)
11/15/1999  H-IIS         H-2-8F     TA Y       MTSAT               1st stg engine LH2 leak, failed at 4 min   FTO
2/10/2000   M-V           M-V-4      KA Mu      Astro-E             1st stg nozzle at 41 sec, upper stgs fired FTO
11/29/2003  H-IIA-2024    H-2A-6F    TA Y       IGS-2A/2B           one SRB-A failed to sep, RSO at 11 min     FTO
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Footnotes:

#  FTO:  Failed to Orbit
  (EEO):  Unintended Eliptical Earth Orbit
  (GTO):  Unintended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
  (LEO):  Unintended/Improper Low Earth Orbit

"KA" = Kagoshima Space Center
"TA" = Tanegashima Space Center
"Y" = Yoshinobu Launch Complex 


References:

Jonathan's Space Report Launch Vehicle Database "http://www.planet4589.org/space/lvdb/index.html"
Encylopedia Astronautica "http://www.astronautix.com/"
Gunter's Space Page "http://www.skyrocket.de/space"
TRW Space Log 1957-1996, TRW Space & Electronics Group, Redondo Beach, CA. 

Last Update 12/22/2008 by Ed Kyle