Japan successfully launches H2A rocket

[gkanai]

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Tuesday it hoped to receive more satellite launch orders for its H-2A rocket after it won a South Korean contract, its first deal with a foreign customer.

The industrial giant aspires to compete with European consortium Arianespace and Boeing-led Sea Launch but had previously only had business from inside Japan.

Japan eyes more space orders after SKorea

[Takechanpoo]

I wanted to see the moment that Kimchese explode their pursecution complexes.
Damn!!!:wall:

[FG Lurker]

I wanted to see the moment that Kimchese explode their pursecution complexes.
Damn!!!:wall:

Don't worry Take, I'm sure many more Japanese rockets will explode...

[Buraku]

I think its great Japan got back into the space industry, its a multi million dollar opportunity they proved its reliability when they got their commerical sat launchers going and Japan has a new bunch of science also like that latest robotic orbiter around the Moon
however I feel they arrived at the game a bit late.

1997-2004 were shit years for Japan launchers, just check out the "Oops another Japanese rocket has blown up thread".
This might sound callous and unsympathetic but 2003 was an opportunity for JAXA, a wasted opportunity as Shuttle blew up and killed seven crew. Nobody would ever be launch commercial sats via this risky launch vehicle ever again, its just too much bad publicity to see not only their satellite get lost but risking the lives of astronauts as well. The other typical launch vehicles for the United States were Boeing's Delta and LockMart's Atlas vehicles aka EELVs.

Bush in order to pretend he actually gave a shit about NASA launched some big grand vision to Mars, as record by FG Asskissinger's "MARS Let's Go!" thread. However the vision had little direction and too little funding, in order to keep Mars flying the team behind the Bush vision decided NASA needed serious cutting. Canceling missions like MTO, JIMO, TPF....bla bla Another nail in the coffin came a few months later when NASA basically canceled Mars and gave us a only a rocket so America can return to the Moon and do a re-run of 1969. NASA might finally get a heavy lifter but get this Ares-I...the rocket that will launch astronauts to the Moon is nothing more than an ugly Shuttle SRB with a capsule glued on top. Finally nail in the coffin came when administrator Griffin basically tried his best to put Delta and Atlas out of business and give launch contracts to a bunch of ponzi scammers with very little experience.
Word out there is Obama's going to change all this, give the ponzi scammers from COTS the boot, put somebody with real flight and launch experience like Retired USAF General in charge of NASA so China don't get to Mars first and get the EELV industry moving again.

Japan might have a great rocket again but I think the window for 'Kimchese' will only be open for a very short time because the South Korean government has been paying the Ruskies to build a launch pad for them. Soyuz from Seoul?

[Buraku]

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUKT37454720090123

By Chisa Fujioka

TOKYO, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Japan launched a satellite on Friday to monitor greenhouse gases along with seven smaller satellites in a mission that could boost business for the country's cash-hungry space programme.

The H-2A rocket, carrying the biggest number of satellites ever for a Japanese rocket, took off from the tiny island of Tanegashima 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo, after a delay of two days because of poor weather.

"The greenhouse gases-observation satellite has separated from the rocket and is functioning normally," said a spokeswoman at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan's space agency. It was yet unclear if the other satellites had also been safely deployed.

The main satellite will enable scientists to calculate the densities of carbon dioxide and methane from 56,000 locations on the Earth's surface, which Japanese officials hope will contribute to global efforts to tackle climate change.

The mission is also a test for Japan as it sets its sights on the satellite-launch business in the face of competition from Europe, the United States and Russia, as well as newer entrants such as China and India.

China launched a communications satellite for Nigeria in 2007 and launched Venezuela's first satellite last year. India has also heated up the Asian space race, launching its first unmanned moon mission last October.

Japan clinched its first commercial satellite order earlier this month, when South Korea's space agency asked Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (7011.T) to launch KOMPSAT-3, designed to take images of the Earth. The launch will be in 2011 or 2012.

COMPETITIVENESS

Experts hailed the KOMPSAT-3 deal as paving the way for more business in Japan, although price competitiveness remained an issue.

"Japan will try hard to bring costs down," said Yuzo Suga, professor of global environment at Hiroshima Institute of Technology who uses data from satellites in his research.

"In the case of Earth-monitoring satellites, it's becoming important to have multiple satellites so the observation is constant. Prices need to be kept low for that."

Japan cut costs for the latest H-2A launch to a new low of 8.5 billion yen ($96 million), but it faces tough competition.

"Russia and China have a huge legacy of military space programmes," said Lance Gatling, of aerospace consultants Gatling Associates.

He said Japan had made great strides on a limited budget, but that price and limited availability of launch windows could hamper commercial launches. Launch dates at Japan's Tanegashima station have to be agreed with local fishermen. Continued...

[Takechanpoo]

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If we Japanese do our best, we easily can pass over Russian and American space technology. Needless to say, we need not a little times to pass over American one. But its so easy for us to do rubbish Russian one.

[Adhesive]

If we Japanese do our best, we easily can pass over Russian and American space technology. Needless to say, we need not a little times to pass over American one. But its so easy for us to do rubbish Russian one.

Last I heard, there have been no confirmed sightings of tentacle-sprouting rape monsters in space, which means I doubt you "Japanese" will ever approve the level of space funding necessary to overtake the Americans.

[FG Lurker]

But its so easy for us to do rubbish Russian one.

I don't think the Japanese will be surpassing Russian rocket technology anytime soon. This reminds me of a recent Dilbert cartoon:



As it stands now Japan can't keep up with the Chinese... I think you have your work cut out for you Take!

[Greji]

If we Japanese do our best......

If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass....

[Takechanpoo]

[FG Lurker]

I wanted to see the moment that Kimchese explode their pursecution complexes.
Damn!!!:wall:

Looks like you got your wish Take!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/06/10/bloomberg1376-L3SNCW07SXKX-1.DTL

[Takechanpoo]

First Japanese rocket with commercial payload launched

A Japanese rocket lifted off Tuesday and successfully put the national space programme's first commercial satellite into space, officials said, as Tokyo tries to enter a business dominated by European and Russian companies. Telstar 12V, the latest addition to Telesat's fleet of communications satellites, will bridge the Atlantic Ocean with expanded coverage for television broadcasters and mobile users, covering the Americas and EMEA regions as well as maritime zones in Europe, the Caribbean and South Atlantic. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. successfully launched H2A rocket No. 29, carrying the Canadian telecommunications satellite Telstar 12V, from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 3:50 p.m. on Tuesday. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency spent 9.2 billion yen ($74.9 million) on the modification. This is Japan's first launch of a commercial satellite. The previous 28 H-IIA launches have a 96.4 per cent success rate, with only one failure. Satellites, once detached from their carriers, use their own engines to climb into final position. But the improved H-IIA can fly for four and a half hours, far longer than its previous versions.

http://heraldvoice.com/2015/11/24/first ... -launched/
thank you the canadian company believing H2A.

[Coligny]

It was anninsurance scam, they expected you to blow it up as usual...

[matsuki]

It was anninsurance scam, they expected you to blow it up as usual...

Well...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency spent 9.2 billion yen ($74.9 million) on the modification.

[Takechanpoo]

Philippines' first microsatellite jointly developed by Philippine government, hokkaido univ and tohoku univ.

The 'DIWATA-1', the Philippines' first microsatellite, was unveiled by Filipino and Japanese researchers on Wednesday (January 13) at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

"This is the first microsatellite that is built with Filipino engineers, and also the first microsatellite of the Philippines," said Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, the Undersecretary for Scientific and Technological Services of Department of Science and Technology, during a news conference before the microsatellite was shown to journalists.

The smooth, silver metal device is small in scale, weighing about 50 kilograms (110 lb).

The Philippines' Department of Science and Technology funded the project entirely, investing 800 million yen ($ 6.8 million) for 'DIWATA-1'.

The Filipino engineers were given the research know-how by Japanese researchers, including Tohoku University Space Robotics professor Kazuya Yoshida.

"The types of missions we're looking at include earth exploration, disaster monitoring, and weather monitoring," Yoshida said.

The device is scheduled to be sent to the International Space Station in March and launched in May. 'DIWATA-2', another microsatellite, is planned for a launch in 2017.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/55 ... d-in-japan
https://www.facebook.com/gmanews/posts/ ... 2643996977

Diwata02_2016_01_13_19_42_10.jpg

[Takechanpoo]

Japan Launches X-Ray Observatory to Study Black Holes
http://www.space.com/31968-japan-x-ray- ... itomi.html

the successful launch rate is 96.7% since failure in 2003

[matsuki]

Nice....until some otaku hackers use it to zoom in and shoot media of AKB48

[Coligny]

Japan Launches X-Ray Observatory to Study Black Holes
http://www.space.com/31968-japan-x-ray- ... itomi.html

the successful launch rate is 96.7% since failure in 2003

So even if they ignore the failures they don't reach 100%

(math.... I don't care...)