Tag: Japan
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Surveillance satellite on track for blastoff from Japan
File photo of a Japanese H-2A rocket during rollout to the launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center. Credit: JAXA A Japanese H-2A rocket is set for launch Thursday with a high-resolution imaging satellite to record views of strategic sites for the country’s intelligence agencies. The two-stage hydrogen-fueled rocket has a 13-minute window to blast…
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H-2A rocket boosts Japanese radar spy satellite into orbit
射点に向けて固定しているカメラが多いので、飛行中はあまり撮ってないのですが、少ない中から１枚。 pic.twitter.com/snjo2anBtv — 柴田孔明 (@koumeiShibata) February 1, 2015 Japan launched a new satellite Sunday to reinforce the country’s fleet of orbiting spy platforms charged with monitoring its neighbors in the Asia-Pacific. The spacecraft carries a sophisticated radar payload designed to survey the globe night and day — and in all weather conditions — from an…
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Japanese rocket launch postponed by poor weather
File photo of an H-2A rocket rolling to the launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center. Credit: JAXA A threat of thick clouds kept a Japanese H-2A rocket from launching Thursday with a government-owned radar reconnaissance satellite. Japanese officials did not set a new target launch date, and said the liftoff would be rescheduled based…
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Japanese H-IIA kicks off Hayabusa 2’s asteroid mission
Japan has successfully launched the second sample return mission to an asteroid, with a JAXA H-IIA rocket carrying the Hayabusa 2 probe into orbit on the first leg of its journey to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3. Launch occurred on schedule at 04:22 UTC on Wednesday from Pad 1 of the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at JAXA’s…
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H-2A rocket boosts Japanese weather satellite into orbit
Japan launched a next-generation geostationary weather satellite Tuesday on the 25th flight of the country’s H-2A rocket, deploying an upgraded meteorological observatory critical to the minute-by-minute tracking of tropical cyclones and other storm systems across the Asia-Pacific. The H-2A rocket blasts off from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. Credit: MHI With its twin solid rocket boosters…
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Upgraded Japanese weather satellite set for launch
A space-based weather monitor, equipped with upgraded instruments for more detailed and timely data on tropical cyclones and thunderstorms, is scheduled for launch Tuesday on top of Japan’s 25th H-2A rocket. The H-2A rocket arrives at the launch pad Monday after rollout from its Vehicle Assembly Building. Photo credit: MHI The Himawari 8 weather observatory…
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Japan’s Epsilon launches with SPRINT-A
Japan’s Epsilon rocket has made its maiden launch carrying JAXA’s SPRINT-A ultraviolet astronomy satellite early on Saturday morning. Liftoff from the Uchinoura Space Centre was delayed from last month after the first launch attempt was scrubbed due to issues during the latter part of the countdown. Japanese Launch Overview: Epsilon, which will replace the…
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Japanese H-2A lofts IGS (Radar-3) satellite into orbit
Japan has launched a new Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) known as Radar-3, via their H-2A (H-IIA) launch vehicle. Amateur footage of the launch provided confirmation of a successful lift off from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) at 01:21 UTC in the early hours of Monday. Spacecraft Separation was confirmed via…
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Japanese H-2A launches with new IGS military satellite
Japan has launched a new Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) known as Optical-4, via their H-2A (H-IIA) launch vehicle. Given the military nature of the payload, only amateur footage of the launch was available, although it did show the vehicle successfully lifted off from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) at 04:36…