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Launch site for Cyclone-4M and possibly for Ariane 62 or Vega C [57] [58] Greenland ( Denmark) Pituffik Space Base: 1964–1980 Former US Air Force launch site [59] United States: Clark University Physics Laboratory, Worcester, Massachusetts
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]
The Uchinoura Space Center (内之浦宇宙空間観測所, Uchinoura Uchū Kūkan Kansokusho) is a space launch facility in the Japanese town of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture. [1] Before the establishment of the JAXA space agency in 2003, it was simply called the Kagoshima Space Center ( 鹿児島宇宙空間観測所 ) ( KSC ). [ 2 ]
The Japanese space program (Japanese: 日本の宇宙開発) originated in the mid-1950s as a research group led by Hideo Itokawa at the University of Tokyo.The size of the rockets produced gradually increased from under 30 cm (12 in) at the start of the project, to over 15 m (49 ft) by the mid-1960s.
Spaceport Kii (Japanese: スペースポート紀伊, sometimes stylized as Space Port Kii) is a commercial spaceport located in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture in Japan. Japan's first private spaceport, it is operated by Space One, who are using it to launch their solid-fuel rocket KAIROS. As of 17 December 2024, two launch attempts have been ...
Yoshinobu Launch Complex [1] [2] (abbreviated as LA-Y) is a rocket launch site at the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built for the H-II launch vehicle and later used for H-IIA, H-IIB and H3 launches. It is the most Northern launch complex at Tanegashima, and along with the now ...
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 ...
This paved the way for the establishment of the Kagoshima Space Center and the opening of a full-scale launch site in 1962 [12]. In the same year, Japan set a goal of launching a 30 kg satellite within five years. [9] In 1962, Japan began experiments with the Lambda rocket, later iterations of which ultimately launched Ohsumi. [9]