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...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
... of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and is due to be launched from the Tanegashima Space Center, aboard an H-IIA rocket into low Earth orbit in a few days time. The purpose of ASTRO...
09 February 2021
UAE Hope probe successfully enters Mars' orbit
... reached Mars after a seven-month, over 493.5 million-kilometre journey following its launch from the Tanegashima, Japan, on 19 July 2020. The probe fired its six Delta-V thrusters for 27 minutes to slow the spacecraft...
