Tag: Japan

  • 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…

  • Video and photos: Soyuz crew capsule lands in Kazakhstan

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    The Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft carrying U.S., Russian and Japanese space fliers returned to Earth on Sunday with a parachute-assisted, rocket-cushioned touchdown on the Kazakh steppe after 168 days in orbit. Suspended under an orange and white parachute, the landing craft descended under clear skies and touched down at 1239 GMT (8:39 a.m. EDT; 6:39 p.m.…

  • Live coverage: Soyuz capsule brings home three-man crew

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    Live coverage of the Expedition 55 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Space station crew closes out 168-day mission

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft touches down in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA flight engineer and a Japanese physician-astronaut strapped into their Soyuz ferry ship early Sunday, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to…

  • 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…

  • Japanese spy satellite launch delayed by poor weather forecast

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    File photo of a Japanese H-2A rocket. Credit: JAXA A bad weather forecast has prompted Japanese space officials to delay the launch of an H-2A rocket with a high-resolution government-owned reconnaissance satellite by at least 48 hours until Monday night, U.S. time. Ground crews at the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan’s primary spaceport in the southwestern…

  • Spacewalking astronauts complete robot arm work

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA TV Astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japanese crewmate Norishige Kanai floated outside the International Space Station Friday, repositioned two robot arm grapple mechanisms following repair work last month and carried out a variety of “get-ahead” tasks before calling it a day. Floating in the Quest airlock,…

  • Souped-up sounding rocket lifts off from Japan with tiny satellite

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) on Feb. 3 after confirmation of successful flight. Video credit: JAXA A modified sounding rocket originally designed to loft science instruments on high-altitude suborbital arcs blasted off Saturday from the Uchinoura Space Center in southern Japan and soared into orbit to become the world’s smallest satellite launcher. The…

  • Asteroid missions on track to reach their destinations in 2018

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    Artist’s concept of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft at asteroid Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita Pioneering spacecraft from NASA and the Japanese space agency promise to reveal two unexplored asteroids later this year, officials said Wednesday, beginning surveys that will culminate in daring descents to capture samples for return to Earth, where eager scientists await a hands-on…

  • Japanese radar satellite launched aboard third Epsilon booster

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    Japan’s Epsilon rocket delivered a civilian-operated radar imaging satellite to orbit Wednesday on a mission to demonstrate the performance of a new commercial spacecraft design and collect all-weather imagery for use in emergencies, mapping and global surveillance. Developed by NEC Corp., the ASNARO 2 satellite launched Wednesday was developed with $144 million from the Japanese…