Tag: Tanegashima Space Center

  • Launch of Japanese X-ray observatory postponed

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    Ground crews prepare the Astro-H spacecraft for launch at the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Credit: JAXA The Japanese space agency said Thursday the launch of an X-ray astrophysics observatory is postponed from Friday due to a poor weather forecast at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. The Astro-H mission is awaiting launch aboard…

  • Photos: H-2A rocket launches satellite for Canadian company

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    A powerful H-2A launcher, boosted by four strap-on rocket motors and an upgraded second stage, lifted off from Japan on Tuesday with a multipurpose communications satellite for Ottawa-based Telesat. The 174-foot-tall (53-meter) rocket launched at 0650 GMT (1:50 a.m. EST) Tuesday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, and it deployed the Telstar 12…

  • Japanese rocket ready to launch supplies to space station

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    Japan’s H-2B rocket rolled out to the launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center on Wednesday for final countdown preparations. Credit: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries A Japanese HTV cargo craft is being prepped for liftoff Wednesday with a much-needed shipment of provisions for the International Space Station’s six-person crew after a spate of failures strained the…

  • H-2A rocket achieves fourth launch in six months

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    A new surveillance satellite equipped with a high-resolution optical camera blasted into space aboard a Japanese H-2A rocket Thursday, joining a fleet of spy stations in orbit to track military activity in North Korea and other locations around the world. Owned and operated by the Japanese government, the reconnaissance spacecraft lifted off at 0121 GMT…

  • Surveillance satellite on track for blastoff from Japan

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    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…

  • H-2A rocket boosts Japanese radar spy satellite into orbit

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    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…

  • Japanese rocket launch postponed by poor weather

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    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…

  • Hayabusa 2 launches on audacious asteroid adventure

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    Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission blasts off from Tanegashima Space Center aboard an H-2A rocket. Credit: JAXA A Japanese H-2A launcher blasted off from an idyllic island spaceport Tuesday, dispatching a daring six-year expedition to bring a piece of an asteroid back to Earth. The Hayabusa 2 mission’s roundtrip voyage began at 0422 GMT Wednesday…

  • Live coverage: Japanese asteroid mission blasts off

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Japanese H-2A rocket carrying Hayabusa 2, a robotic spacecraft designed to collect samples from an asteroid and return the material to Earth. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Japan set to launch asteroid sample return mission

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    The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is mated to the top of an H-2A launcher at the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Credit: JAXA Japan is readying an H-2A rocket for liftoff Tuesday to kick off an audacious six-year roundtrip journey a carbon-rich asteroid, drop a fleet of landers to its surface, collect primordial rock samples, and…