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JAXA |HTV-3

The H-IIB launch vehicle lifted off at 11:06 a.m., July 21, 2012.
The H-IIB launch vehicle continued ascent toward orbit carrying KOUNOTORI3.

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JAXA |2025

2025 - An Ideal Society Through Aerospace Technology:

Today, aircraft are an essential mode of transportation. 

They connect countries around the world, carrying large

numbers of passengers and huge amounts of cargo. 

We also recognize the social benefits and usefulness of

artificial satellites for such things as weather forecasting,

communications and observing Earth.

...

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Hayabusa is back |Jaxa

Hayabusa is Back!


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Moon 2020 |JAXA

Japan Shoots for Robotic Moon Base by 2020

Concept drawing of a robotic lunar base. Credit: JAXA

These ARE the droids we've been looking for. The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has plans to build a base on the Moon by 2020. Not for humans, but for robots, and built by robots, too. A panel authorized by Japan's prime minister has drawn up preliminary plans of how humanoid and rover robots will begin surveying the moon by 2015, and then begin construction of a base near the south pole of the moon. The robots and the base will run on solar power, with total costs about $2.2 billion USD, according to the panel chaired by Waseda University President Katsuhiko Shirai...
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Akatsuki ist auf dem Weg! |Venus

Launch H-IIA - Akatsuki - Venus Climate Orbiter:  
In der vergangene Nacht ist die japanische Raumsonde Akatsuki an Bord einer H2-A-Rakete vom Weltraumbahnhof Tanegashima in Richtung Venus. Auch die Sonnensegel-Mission IKAROS und mehrere Kleinsatelliten wurden erfolgreich ausgesetzt.

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JAXA |Hayabusa

www.isas.jaxa.jp Hayabusa is currently 16,320,530 km away from the Earth, located at 8h18m23s RA and 30.54 deg DEC (Constellation of Cancer), as of 00:00:00 UT, 05 May 2010. From Hayabusa’s point of view, the Earth can be seen in a direction of Sagittarius.