The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) have launched their H-IIB F3 carrier rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. Lift off was on schedule at 2:06am UTC, starting a week long flight to the International Space Station (ISS) for HTV-3 (KOUNOTORI3), delivering thousands of pounds of internal and external cargo to the Orbital Outpost.
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Japan’s H3 rocket made a second attempt to reach orbit on Saturday, 11 months after…
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The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA launch vehicle, as its career is being wound down in…
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JAXA Epsilon fails on sixth flight carrying RAISE-3 and others
by Joseph NavinEpsilon launched from the Mu Pad at the Uchinoura Space Center in Japan at 00:50…
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Japan’s H-IIA rocket launched on October 26 at 02:19 UTC from LA-Y1 at the Tanegashima…
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Japan’s H3 rocket awaiting final engine certification for first flight
by Lee KanayamaJapan’s third-generation liquid hydrogen-powered rocket, H3, is nearing closer to its first launch. The H3…
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CommercialInternationalMars
Year in Review: Mars missions, Lunar Samples, Crew launched from the US, and Starlink
Despite a worldwide pandemic which affected agencies around the world, 2020 featured many significant achievements…
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan plans launched an H-IIA rocket on Sunday, 29 November to…
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Nearly 11 years after the launch of the first Japanese Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)…
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Expedition 63 Commander Christopher Cassidy and Joint Operations Commander Robert Behnken, both NASA astronauts, completed…
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Following the H-IIB rocket’s final flight Thursday, launching the ninth and last H-II Transfer Vehicle…
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As world leaders grapple and struggle to control the coronavirus pandemic which leads to the…
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Making its first flight in over a year, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-IIA rocket lifted off…
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Japan’s Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle has completed its eighth mission at the International Space Station…
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Japan conducted its first launch of 2019 Friday, using the small Epsilon rocket to launch…
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Japan’s HTV-7 resupply spacecraft has bid farewell to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday,…
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Japan launched a satellite to monitor greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday. The…
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HTV-7 has been captured by the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, delivering a new…
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Japan made another addition to its constellation of reconnaissance satellites with the launch of the…
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A Japanese reconnaissance satellite rode to orbit Tuesday aboard the country’s H-IIA carrier rocket. Liftoff,…