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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]
Map all coordinates using ... Orbital launch site for Space One [21] Japan: ... Several rockets of the Kookaburra type were launched from a pad at 0°41' S and 73 ...
SLC-41 was the site of the first-ever Atlas V launch on 21 August 2002, lifting Hot Bird 6, a Eutelsat geostationary communications spacecraft built around a Spacebus 3000B3 bus. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Atlas V rockets are assembled vertically on a mobile launcher platform (MLP) in the Vertical Integration Facility , located to the south of the pad.
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.
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 ...
When the H–1 was announced in 1986, company representative Tsuguo Tatakawe clarified that it would only be used to launch indigenous (i.e. Japanese) payloads, that only two launches per year could be mounted, and that the launch window consisted of a four-month period in which Japanese fishing fleets were not active (the falling launch boosters may damage fishing nets in the ocean waters).
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]