Japan Launches Largest Satellite on H-2A Rocket
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Tokyo, Dec. 18 (Jiji Press)--Japan's space agency on Monday successfully launched a 5.8-ton experimental telecommunications satellite, the nation's largest satellite to date.  A domestically developed H-2A rocket carrying the No.
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A Japanese government panel has approved plans to send two spy satellites into Earth's orbit beginning next year, a media report said Wednesday.
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Japan launched a satellite-based alert system Friday that will instantly send warnings of tsunamis and updates on volcanic activity to help speed evacuations, an emergency official said.
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Boeing successfully launched the most powerful unmanned rocket ever on Tuesday when the 71-metre long Delta IV Heavy lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a fake satellite into orbit.
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Europe's most powerful rocket, carrying a payload of precious satellites, soared into space Saturday from its South American base in a successful launch more than two years after its inaugural flight ended in disaster.
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TOKYO - Japan operates four information-gathering satellites, launched after North Korea's test-launch of missiles, without having registered them with the United Nations as an international treaty requires.
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By ERIC TALMADGE TOKYO - All systems are finally go for Japan's first lunar orbiter, which is scheduled for launch on Aug. 16, officials announced Wednesday.
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Japan launches a rocket carrying its third spy satellite, increasing its ability to monitor North Korea.
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Japan, one of the world's most  seismically active nations, on Friday began an alert system  using satellites to instantly transmit warnings of natural  disasters, such as tsunami, to speed up evacuations.
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Japan successfully intercepted a ballistic missile in its first test launch of the US-developed SM-3 missile interceptor system from a warship in waters off Hawaii, a defence official said Tuesday.
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Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, which gives its the capability to observe any location around the globe.
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Japan claims its project is the biggest since Apollo. China says it is readying its probes to study the lunar surface to plan a landing.
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France launched an Ariane rocket on December 18, lifting into orbit the new-generation military satellite Helios II A and six microsatellites for different scientific purposes, said reports reaching Kourou, French Guiana.
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Japanese lawmakers on Wednesday approved a two-year extension of the country's air force transport mission in Iraq, despite criticism of Tokyo's involvement in the increasingly unpopular war.
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The new Japanese spacecraft sent into orbit in September to study the Sun has returned its first scientific data.
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Bad weather, no new date set Bad weather has forced Japan to postpone the launch of a new spy satellite. Japanese space agency JAXA scrubbed the launch shortly before the rocket carrying the satellite was due to blast off from Tanegashima island.â¦
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Selene satellite launched by Japan in most ambitious mission to moon since US Apollo flights.