Japan’s H-IIA rocket lifted off from Tanegashima Island at 22:01:37 UTC on October 9, 2017 with the fourth Quasi-Zenith Satellite, the last member of the QZSS satellite constellation
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Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, designed to improve the availability & accuracy of satellite navigation over the island nation, will reach full strength on Monday when the fourth and last planned QZSS satellite takes flight atop an H-IIA rocket blasting off from the picturesque Tanegashima Space Center.
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Riding on pillars of fire and smoke, Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket blasted into the sunset over French Guiana on Friday, heading off on its final Geotransfer mission of the year with a pair of particularly heavy satellites for operators Intelsat and B-SAT
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket returned to its French Guiana Launch Pad for liftoff Friday night with a pair of communications satellites for Luxembourg’s Intelsat and Japanese operator B-SAT, coming back from an aborted ignition earlier this month
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Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse launcher suffered a very rare on-pad abort on Tuesday when aiming for a sunset liftoff from French Guiana with a particularly heavy pair of communications satellites for operators Intelsat and B-SAT
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket stands ready for a sunset liftoff from French Guiana on its fifth mission of the year, targeting a launch window of 21:51 to 22:24 UTC on Tuesday to send two heavy communications satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit for Luxembourg’s Intelsat and Japan’s B-SAT.
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket soared to its fourth success of the year on Saturday, deploying the third satellite in the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System for navigation services augmentation in fast-paced effort to complete the four-satellite constellation
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket, flying in its 204 configuration with four boosters, lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 5:29:00 UTC on August 19, 2017
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket has returned to its sea-side launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center for the second launch attempt with Quasi Zenith Satellite 3, following a scrub last week and repairs completed inside the rocket’s assembly facility.
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The launch of Japan’s H-IIA rocket with the third Quasi-Zenith Satellite had to be scrubbed deep into the countdown on Saturday due to a potential issue with the launcher’s propulsion system.
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A satellite designed to improve navigation availability and accuracy over Japan is ready for launch on Saturday atop an H-IIA rocket blasting off from the country’s picturesque Tanegashima Space Center.
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A Japanese H-IIA rocket screamed away from the country’s Tanegashima Space Center on Thursday, dispatching an innovative satellite into orbit to join a constellation of spacecraft enhancing the availability and accuracy of Global Positioning System navigation services over the Japanese Islands and Asia-Pacific Region.
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A Japanese H-IIA 202 rocket blasted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 0:17:46 UTC on June 1st, 2017, carrying into orbit the second member of the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
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A Japanese H-IIA 202 rocket blasted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 0:17:46 UTC on June 1st, 2017, carrying into orbit the second member of the country’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
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Japan is preparing an H-IIA rollout for liftoff on Thursday with the second Quasi-Zenith Satellite to help augment Global Positioning System services over the Japanese Islands and the Asia Pacific Region by increasing its availability and accuracy.
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Japan successfully launched a radar reconnaissance satellite into orbit on Friday to replenish the country’s fleet of intelligence-gathering satellites primarily dedicated to advance warning of hostile missile launches in Japan’s neighborhood.
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket is gearing up for liftoff on Friday from the picturesque Tanegashima Space Center on a semi-classified mission for the Japanese Defense Forces.
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