Japanese Launch Vehicles

Japanese Launch Vehicles JAPANESE

N-1 Launch Vehicle Flight No.5

It was launched from Tanegashima Space Center.
It launched ECS =AYAME Experimental Communications Satellite.
(Kiribati,1980,SC#351)

Trajectory of Geosynchronous Satellite

　
(Kiribati,1980,SC#350)

　N-2 Launch Vehicles also launched.

H-1 Launch Vehicle

　 (Ghana,1992,SC#1494)

H-2 Launch Vehicle
H-2 Launch Vehicle failed twice.
　Margin of the Sheet : explains　characteristics of H-2 launch vehicle.
(Japan, 2003)

M-5 launch vehicle

M-5 launch vehicle was operated by Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciense (ISAS).
　
　(Japan, 2012)

H-2A launch vehicle

H-2A launch vehicle is Japanese main rocket.
　(Japan, 2005)

H-2 Orbiting Plane (HOPE)

NAL and NASDA developed HSFD. It succeeded landing test on Christmas Island of Kiribati Republic.
(Japan,1992,Partialy zoomed SC#2134)

HOPE

(Bhutan)

Image provided by Ms.Michiko Kobayashi

Down Range Station

Christmas Down Range Station(JAXA)

　In Christmas Island of Kiribati, there is JAXA's Down Range Station for launch of geosynchronous satellites.
(Kiribati,1980,SC#349)

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