For the first half of this fiscal year plan rocket launch, JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (JAXA), responsible for the launch on April 12, has been described to promote space development cooperation meeting with interested parties such as prefecture make local governments and companies in the prefecture.
This year, from the Tanegashima Space Center of the town Minamitane, Unit H2A21, H2B3 to just launch the Unit at 11 am July 21, shortly after 1:30 am on May 18.
H2A is to put a "drip" water cycle Observation satellite can examine the sea surface temperature and precipitation moisture of the earth, of soil. By examining the widely ocean temperatures, can understand and assimilate, the fishing of tuna and bonito or the El Nino phenomenon happens in Japan leads to abnormal weather, La Nina phenomenon.
Are supposed to launch "Together Arirang 3" multipurpose satellites of Korea (Konpusatto 3), that preparation is going well.
It is put H2B, the "stork" Unit 3 the experimental tool to carry food and to the International Space Station. Carry along with five small satellite, such as 10 square centimeter from the robot arm work out of "Kibo" laboratory in Japan.
In addition, from the town Kimotsuki Uchinoura Space Center, are planning the launch of sounding rockets. Inflated to about 120 centimeters in diameter disk-shaped experimental aircraft equipped with the sky, to experiment back to Earth a capsule of about 20 cm in diameter in the center. If successful, the technology will be utilized for the return of the spacecraft planet Earth.
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