On 10 October, Moon Express, a company planning to make commercial landing missions on the Moon, formally tied up with commercial opportunities provider NanoRacks, which will market the service for them. Moon Express plans to start its missions – beginning with a...
In what is the third of its kind this year the 2202 GMT launch on 9 October, from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, sees an Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H-2A medium-lift rocket carrying the fourth QZSS satellite, QZSS-4, into Geostationary Transfer orbit...
In what is regarded as a coup for Mitsibushi Heavy Industries (MHI), it was announced that Inmarsat has eschewed the main commercial launch providers (Arianespace, SpaceX, ILS etc) and instead selected the Japanese H-IIA (H2A) rocket to launch the first of its new...
Following an eight-day delay caused by a faulty helium pressurisation system, a MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) H-2A204 medium-lift launch vehicle lifted off at 0530 GMT, 19 August, carrying the QZS 3 (MICHIBIKI 3) GPS augmentation satellite. The launch took place...
At 0018 GMT on 1 June, a Japanese H-2A202 heavy-lift rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan, carrying the MICHIBIKI-2 (QZS-2) spacecraft into an elliptical transfer orbit. The H-2A rocket flew in its “202” configuration utilising two...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) was formally chosen by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the prime contractor for the Engineering Test Satellite 9 (ETS-9). The experimental communications spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2021 and will test...
