News Archive / Tagged: Japan
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SpaceX launches private Japanese Hakuto-R Moon lander
Theresa CrossDecember 11th, 2022After a nearly two-week delay, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Japan-based ispace’s small Hakuto-R M1 lunar lander toward the Moon.
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Ariane 5 rocket begins BepiColombo’s journey to Mercury
Tomasz NowakowskiOctober 19th, 2018Lighting up the skies above the jungles of French Guiana, an Ariane 5 rocket sent a multi-faceted and international mission on its way to the planet Mercury.
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100th flight of Ariane 5 rocket orbits 2 telecommunications satellites
Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 25th, 2018KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe’s flagship heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket flew to space for the 100th time in history on Tuesday, delivering the Horizons 3e and Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 telecommunications satellites into orbit.
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Japan successfully lands two small rovers on asteroid Ryugu
Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 23rd, 2018Touchdown! JAXA has made history at asteroid Ryugu!
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New Kounotori 7 launch date announced by JAXA
Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 19th, 2018The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), together with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), announced a new launch date for Japan’s Kounotori 7 cargo flight to the International Space Station.
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HTV-7 launch rescheduled to September 15
Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 12th, 2018Weather issues continue to plague JAXA's attempts to send an array of critical supplies to the ISS - including some which could reschedule important activities at the station.
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High-speed cameras show MOMO-2 launch failure in unprecedented detail
Tomasz NowakowskiAugust 15th, 2018Japanese startup Interstellar Technologies Inc. (IST) has revealed a high-definition video of the June 30 unsuccessful launch of its MOMO-2 rocket. The new footage, captured by industrial high-speed cameras shows the failure in unprecedented detail.
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Interstellar Technologies continues developing rocket after MOMO-2 launch failure
Tomasz NowakowskiJuly 23rd, 2018Japanese startup Interstellar Technologies Inc. (IST) is continuing the development of its MOMO launch vehicle amid the recent failure of the MOMO-2 rocket that exploded shortly after liftoff.
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Launch of Japanese startup’s rocket ends in failure
Tomasz NowakowskiJuly 2nd, 2018A small rocket developed by Interstellar Technologies Inc. (IST) fell to the ground, bursting into flames, shortly after its launch on Saturday, June 30.
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H-IIA takes to the skies with Japan’s IGS-Radar 6 spy satellite
Tomasz NowakowskiJune 12th, 2018An H-IIA rocket took to the skies on June 12, on a classified mission to deliver the IGS-Radar 6 (Information Gathering Satellite) reconnaissance satellite for Japan’s Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Centre.