The Japanese Space Agency JAXA have launched the Venus Climate Orbiter “AKATSUKI” and the Small Solar Power Sail Demonstrator “IKAROS” – along with several university-developed secondary payloads – via their H-IIA Launch Vehicle. Launch from the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) on Thursday was originally scrubbed due to unacceptable weather earlier in the week.
"Akatsuki"
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On June 10, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that they had selected their next…
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Now past the halfway mark in its mission at the giant of our solar system,…
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Overall, NASA’s Juno spacecraft in orbit of Jupiter is in good health and good condition…
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Moving out into the asteroid belt and farther still to the gas giants, NASA’s Dawn,…
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Year 2015 was yet another banner stretch for planetary exploration. The year saw the farewell…
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Japan has successfully launched the second sample return mission to an asteroid, with a JAXA…
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The Japanese have launched the centrepiece of the Global Precipitation Measurement constellation, an international partnership…