Head to head

H-IIA vs PSLV

Two vehicles in the same payload class. Every figure below comes from the same two sources for both rockets, and a row appears only when both publish the input.

Payload to low Earth orbit

Relative

H-IIA: 10,000 kg

PSLV: 3,800 kg

Side by side

11 comparable figures

The highlighted value wins the row. Rows where neither direction is better, like length or stage count, highlight nothing.

Metric	H-IIA	PSLV
Flights flown	50	30
Success rate	98%	93.3%
Payload to LEO (kg)	10,000	3,800
Payload to GTO (kg)	4,100	1,200
Launch cost	$90M	$16M
Cost per kg to LEO	$9,000	$4,211
Liftoff thrust (kN)	2,260	4,847
Length (m)	53	44
Diameter (m)	4	2.8
Launch mass (t)	285	230
Stages	2	4

H-IIA

Flight record

98% success rate49 of 50 flown · 1 failed

2001peak 2017 · 6 flights2025

Maiden flight 2001-08-29. Retired.

PSLV

Flight record

93.3% success rate28 of 30 flown · 2 failed

1993peak 2007 · 2 flights2024

Maiden flight 2007-04-23. Still flying.

H-IIA is built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan (company profile on Space Index).PSLV is built by Indian Space Research Organization of India (company profile on Space Index).

Full specifications and the complete launch history for each: H-IIA · PSLV.

Specifications from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs, launch records from Space Index. Derived figures are computed here; see sources and method.