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The first successful Japanese satellite launch occurred on 11 February 1970 with the launch of the Ohsumi by an unguided L-4S rocket No. 5. [10] The launch of Ohsumi was an important demonstration of technological cooperation with the United States, particularly in the development of high efficiency batteries that did not lose power at high ...
The Tanegashima Space Center (種子島宇宙センター, Tanegashima Uchū Sentā) (TNSC) is the largest rocket-launch complex in Japan with a total area of about 9,700,000 square metres (2,400 acres; 970 ha). [1]
In 2003, JAXA was formed by merging Japan's three space agencies to streamline Japan's space program, and JAXA took over operations of the H-IIA liquid-fueled launch vehicle, the M-V solid-fuel launch vehicle, and several observation rockets from each agency. The H-IIA is a launch vehicle that improved reliability while reducing costs by making ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Space One terminated the flight of its Kairos small rocket shortly after liftoff on Wednesday, marking the end of its second attempt in nine months to become the country's ...
Japan will try again this weekend to launch its new flagship rocket, the H3, in a bid to restore its space program after the booster's failed inaugural flight last year derailed satellite and ...
The launch has already been rescheduled twice due to bad weather, and the agency now plans for liftoff of XRISM and SLIM aboard an H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center at 8:26 p.m. ET ...
Launch site / Pad Payload Payload mass Orbit Users Launch outcome F41 9 February 2020 01:34:00 H-IIA 202 Tanegashima, LA-Y1: IGS-Optical 7: Success F9 20 May 2020 17:31:00 H-IIB Tanegashima, LA-Y2: Kounotori 9 (HTV-9) Success Kounotori 9 launch to the ISS. The last launch of both the launch vehicle and vehicle, awaiting new fleet of HTV-X and ...
Japan wants its private space industry to be worth more than $50 billion by the early 2030s, launch 30 rockets a year and become Asia's space transportation hub, according to the latest government ...