{"id":40660,"date":"2010-09-12T01:26:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jaxa-launch-michibiki-via-hii-a-launch-vehicle\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T01:26:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T17:26:06","slug":"jaxa-launch-michibiki-via-hii-a-launch-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jaxa-launch-michibiki-via-hii-a-launch-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"JAXA launch MICHIBIKI via HII-A launch vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 18 (H-IIA F18) has launched with the First Quasi-Zenith Satellite \u201cMICHIBIKI\u201d \u2013 meaning \u201cguiding\u201d or \u201cshowing the way.\u201d- from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) on Saturday. Launch occurred at 11:17 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>JAXA Launch:<\/p>\n<p>The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 18 is a \u201cH2A202\u201d model with two solid rocket boosters (SRBs). The fairing design is 4S (4 meters in diameter.) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is in charge of the launch service of the H-IIA.<\/p>\n<p>Launch was delayed around a month due to JAXA finding a potential concern in the onboard reaction wheels of the MICHIBIKI spacecraft, following notification from an overseas manufacturer.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"widget-title penci-border-arrow\">See Also<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>HII-A\/MICHIBIKI UPDATES<\/li>\n<li>60 Launch Vehicle Manuals (L2)<\/li>\n<li>Click here to Join L2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The role of the spacecraft is to test a new Japanese concept to augment Global Positioning System navigation signals and increase positioning accuracy in urban canyons and mountainous regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuasi-Zenith Satellite As mobile phones equipped with car navigation or GPS (*1) have become widespread, positioning information using satellites is imperative to our lives,\u201d noted JAXA. \u201cHowever, in some urban or mountainous areas, positioning signals from a satellite are often hampered by skyscrapers or mountains, or significant errors are caused by reflection waves, thus we sometimes lose our way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first Quasi-Zenith Satellite \u201cMICHIBIKI\u201d will contribute to solving such problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15985\" title=\"A3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/A37.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"208\">The MICHIBIKI is the first satellite of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System to carry out verification for technological aspects and utilization in order to complement and reinforce the GPS.<\/p>\n<p>The 4,000kg satellite is made up of a box shape with wing-type solar array paddles and is 2.9m in depth x 3.1m in width x 6.2m in height \u2013 with the length between the tips of the paddles coming in at 25.3 m).<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is made up of a Solar Array Paddle \u2013 to transform sunlight to electric power to provide energy necessary for the satellite. TTS Antenna \u2013 a transmission\/receiving antenna for calibration tests on the onboard clock to conduct bidirectional time comparison with the ground. Laser Reflector \u2013 to carry out laser ranging for verifying orbit and clock estimations and model improvements using L-band ranging signals.<\/p>\n<p>It also sports an L-band Antenna (Helical Array Antenna) \u2013 transmitting five positioning signals including satellite position and time on four frequency bandwidths. L1-SAIF Antenna \u2013 an antenna for reinforcing positioning signals to realize positioning accuracy of one meter. C-band TT&amp;C Antenna \u2013 receiving correction data from the Okinawa tracking and communication station. It will also be used for transmitting and receiving signals for controlling the satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 18 (H-IIA F18) has launched with the First Quasi-Zenith Satellite \u201cMICHIBIKI\u201d \u2013 meaning \u201cguiding\u201d or \u201cshowing the way.\u201d- from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) on Saturday. Launch occurred at 11:17 GMT. JAXA Launch: The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 18 is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[877],"class_list":["post-40660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-jaxa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}