20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... of establishing the first human settlement on the red planet. The Hope probe took off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center on July 19 and arrives at its destination in February in time for the UAE’s 50th anniversary. If the...
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... data for scientific analysis at a much lower operational cost. Surrounded by sea, sand and green hills, Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center has a disadvantage compared to facilities nearer the equator A series of engine firing tests on the 40kN...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
...industry, is due to launch its first planetary-science mission to Mars. Scheduled to launch from a remote Japanese island, Tanegashima, during a narrow launch window at 20:51:27 UTC/GMT on 14 July, the Emirates Mars Mission, or "Hope", will blast off...
15 July 2020
UAE Hope Mission postponed again due to bad weather
... launch due to unstable weather conditions at the launch site in Tanegashima Island, Japan. A new launch date in July will be ... continued turbulence and instability of weather conditions on Tanegashima Island, the launch site for the rocket carrying...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
.... In December 2014, building on the experience gained from Hayabusa, another asteroid probe was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center. This probe, Hayabusa-2, is on its way to a C-type Near Earth Object, asteroid 1999 JU3. It was...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... and JAXA successfully launched H-IIA F26 with the asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 on 3 December 2014 from the Tanegashima Space Center. Ion power Observations of Ryugu from the Earth suggested the asteroid was rotating on its...
