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  • Arab world’s first Mars mission packs a scientific punch

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated July 14 with launch delay. Engineers in Dubai work on UAE’s Hope Mars probe. Credit: MBRSC The UAE’s Hope mission is set for liftoff this week from Japan, taking aim on Mars with a package of scientific instruments designed to probe weather and climate change on the Red Planet. About the size of…

  • UAE’s first Mars probe meets launcher in Japan

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    The Emirates Mars Mission spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation inside the payload fairing of its H-2A launcher. Credit: MHI A Mars orbiter developed by the United Arab Emirates in partnership with U.S. scientists has been mounted on top of a Japanese H-2A rocket and its battery charged for liftoff Tuesday from the Tanegashima Space Center.…

  • Emirates Mars Mission arrives in Japan for launch preparations

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    The Emirati Mars Mission, or Hope spacecraft, is pictured inside a clean room during ground testing. Credit: MBRSC The Arab world’s first Mars probe has arrived at its launch site in Japan after officials navigated coronavirus-related quarantine protocols and travel restrictions to ensure the spacecraft can launch on time in July. The Mars orbiter arrived…

  • Japan launches optical spy satellite

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated after launch. An H-2A rocket lifted off at 10:34 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Monday from the Tanegashima Space Center with a Japanese intelligence-gathering satellite. Credit: NVS video Japan launched an optical reconnaissance satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center Sunday aboard an H-2A rocket after a 12-day delay caused by a nitrogen leak.…

  • Launch of Japanese spy satellite postponed by nitrogen leak

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    A Japanese H-2A rocket stands on its launch pad Monday at the Tanegashima Space Center before officials scrubbed a launch attempt due to a nitrogen leak. Credit: NVS on YouTube Japanese officials halted a countdown Monday at the Tanegashima Space Center when teams overseeing preparations for launch of an H-2A rocket detected a nitrogen gas…

  • Japan launches satellite to study human causes of climate change

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    A Japanese H-2A rocket lifted off at 0408 GMT (12:08 a.m. EDT; 1:08 p.m. JST) Monday. Credit: JAXA/MHI A Japanese H-2A rocket deployed a satellite in orbit Monday to measure greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere and help scientists better quantify the role of human activity in climate change. Nicknamed Ibuki 2, Japan’s second Greenhouse Gases Observing…

  • Live coverage: Japan’s H-2A launches on 40th flight

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Japanese H-2A rocket with Japan’s GOSAT 2 satellite to monitor greenhouse gases and the KhalifaSat Earth-imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”Japanese Webcast”] [tabby title=”UAE Webcast”]…

  • Japanese intelligence-gathering satellite successfully launched

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    とりあえずサブカメラの映像から。H-IIA F39打ち上げ。 pic.twitter.com/JBbj5M66tS — 柴田孔明 (@koumeiShibata) June 12, 2018 An all-weather spy satellite for the Japanese government launched Tuesday on top of an H-2A rocket, extending the country’s surveillance reach with coverage of North Korea and other strategic locations worldwide. The radar-equipped reconnaissance craft lifted off at 0420 GMT (12:20 a.m. EDT) Tuesday from the…

  • Poor weather forecast delays H-2A rocket launch

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    File photo of a Japanese H-2A rocket before a previous mission. Credit: JAXA Projected weather impacts from Tropical Storm Maliksi passing over the Pacific Ocean south of Japan have prompted officials to push back the launch of an H-2A rocket and an Earth-imaging reconnaissance by one day to Tuesday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced…

  • Reconnaissance satellite launched by Japanese H-2A rocket

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    今回のH-IIA F38打ち上げは、地表付近では陽炎が凄くて、ゆらゆら揺れて見えましたが、上空に行くとくっきり見えますね。 pic.twitter.com/0zhyRXYvQk — 柴田孔明 (@koumeiShibata) February 27, 2018 A Japanese H-2A rocket launched Tuesday with a clandestine government-owned satellite to collect sharp-eyed views of North Korea’s missile developments and other global hotspots. The 174-foot-tall (53-meter) rocket fired its hydrogen-fueled LE-7A main engine and two solid rocket boosters at 0434 GMT Tuesday (11:34 p.m. EST…