Japan’s H-IIA rocket blasted off from Tanegashima Island Tuesday morning with the final building block in the country’s regional navigation system, designed to improve GPS navigation services in the street canyons of the island nation’s largest cities and deliver enhanced navigation accuracy to aid air traffic control.
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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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Japan’s H-IIA Rocket jumped off its sea-side launch pad on Tanegashima Island on Wednesday, lifting the Himawari-9 weather satellite into orbit to start a mission ensuring the country can access crucial weather data until the early 2030s.
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Japan’s H-IIA Rocket jumped off its sea-side launch pad on Tanegashima Island on Wednesday, lifting the Himawari-9 weather satellite into orbit to start a mission ensuring the country can access crucial weather data until the early 2030s.
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Japan’s H-IIA launch vehicle is set for liftoff from the picturesque Tanegashima Space Center on Wednesday, carrying into orbit the Himawari-9 advanced meteorological satellite.
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket blasted of from its sea-side launch pad on Tanegashima Space Center on Wednesday, lifting into orbit the Astro-H observatory, set to deliver the highest resolution in high-energy X-Ray spectra to probe the most extreme environments found in the universe.
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket blasted of from its sea-side launch pad on Tanegashima Space Center on Wednesday, lifting into orbit the Astro-H observatory, set to deliver the highest resolution in high-energy X-Ray spectra to probe the most extreme environments found in the universe.
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Japan’s new flagship space observatory was lifted into orbit on Wednesday by an H-IIA rocket, embarking on a mission to observe the most extreme environments in the universe.
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A Japanese H-IIA Rocket is rolled to its sea-side launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center to lift the Astro-H X-ray observatory in orbit to deliver unprecedented detail on the most extreme environments in the universe.
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Japan’s Astro-H X-Ray Observatory is set for liftoff atop an H-IIA rocket on Wednesday after several days of weather-related delays.
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket delivered the Telstar 12V to a good Geostationary Transfer Orbit on Tuesday in the rocket’s first commercial launch and the first involving an upgraded second stage capable of conducting extended missions.
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket checked off a success on its first commercial mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit on Tuesday, lifting the Canadian-operated Telstar 12V in a mission lasting four and a half hours and introducing a number of new technologies on the upper stage of the rocket.
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket lifted off from its picturesque launch site on Tanegashima Island at 6:50 UTC on Tuesday, embarking on its first fully commercial mission, lifting the Canadian-operated Telstar 12V into Geostationary Transfer Orbit in a mission lasting four and a half hours.
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A Japanese H-IIA rocket made an on time liftoff on Tuesday, embarking on Japan’s first commercial mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit, carrying the Canadian-owned Telstar 12V satellite.
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Japan’s H-IIA is on the launch pad for a rare commercial satellite launch Tuesday morning, lofting the Telstar 12V satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit for Canadian satellite operator Telsat. After over 40 years of launching satellites into Geostationary Transfer Orbit, this marks the first commercial communications satellite launch for Japan.
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