by Matt Wilson | Oct 29, 2018 | JAXA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Launching from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, at 0408 GMT, 29 October 2018, an Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), H-2A202 rocket has carried the GOSAT-2 (IBUKI 2) greenhouse gas monitoring satellite and five co-payloads to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). GOSAT-2 is a...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 24, 2018 | International Space Station, JAXA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Following delays caused by both the weather and the launch vehicle, at 1752 GMT, on 22 September, the seventh HTV (HTV-7) resupply freighter was launched to the ISS by its Mitsubishi Industries (MHI) supplied H-2B rocket. The freighter, which will be docking with the...
by David Todd | Sep 24, 2018 | exploration, JAXA, Seradata News
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been celebrating the successful landing of two small hopper rovers on the Ryugu asteroid on 20 September. The “mother ship” Hayabusa 2 was launched in December 2014 and, using electric thrusters and an Earth gravity...
by Matt Wilson | Feb 27, 2018 | JAXA, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News
Launching from the Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, at 0434 GMT, 27 February, an H-2A medium lift rocket has carried the IGS-6 (Optical) spacecraft to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The H-2A rocket built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) flew in its “202”...
by Matt Wilson | Oct 10, 2017 | JAXA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
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...
