{"id":51023,"date":"2024-07-01T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/japans-h3-rocket-launches-alos-4-satellite\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T10:01:46","slug":"japans-h3-rocket-launches-alos-4-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/japans-h3-rocket-launches-alos-4-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s H3 Rocket Launches ALOS-4 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <b>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/b> (JAXA) launched the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite aboard the H3 rocket on Monday. JAXA confirmed post-launch that the mission was successful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The H3 mission took off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 12:06 p.m. JST on July 1. The satellite separated from the launch vehicle approximately 16 minutes and 34 seconds into the mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was the second successful mission for the H3 rocket. The rocket failed in its debut flight in March 2023 carrying the ALOS-3 satellite, and then successfully launched in February 2024. It is Japan\u2019s new flagship rocket.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4, ALOS-4, also known as Daichi-4, was built by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for JAXA. The satellite is equipped with  an L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor PALSAR-3, and a space-based Automatic Identification System Experiment (SPAISE3).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will replace the ALOS-2\/Daichi-2 satellite, launched in 2024. ALOS-4 will increase the observation frequency of ground activity due to volcanic activity or an earthquake so that disaster prevention agencies can detect unusual activity or landslides in a more timely manner. The satellite will also be used to monitor deforestation and infrastructure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite aboard the H3 rocket on Monday. JAXA confirmed post-launch that the mission was successful.&nbsp; The H3 mission took off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 12:06 p.m. JST on July 1. The satellite separated from the launch vehicle approximately 16 minutes and 34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51024,"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":[],"class_list":["post-51023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51023"}],"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=51023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}