🚀About JAXA, SS-520 Ultra small satellite launch demonstration experiment by Unit 5


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🚀About JAXA, SS-520 Ultra small satellite launch demonstration experiment by Unit 5

Experiment period:

Wednesday, December 25 (2017) – Heisei 30 (2018) Wednesday (Wednesday) (including experiment preparatory period)

Experimental location:

Uchinoura Space Observatory (Kagoshima Prefecture Liver Metropolitan County Liveru Town)

Scheduled launch date:

December 25 (Monday), Heisei 29 (2017) 10: 00 ~ 14: 15 (Japan Standard Time) (※)

Outline of experiment:

We will carry out a re-experiment on the demonstration of a miniaturized satellite launch with a rocket using civil technology, taking measures against the experiment failure of SS-520 Unit 4 in January this year.

This experiment is to be implemented with the adoption of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s FY2007 Space Industry Technology Information Infrastructure Development R & D Project (demonstration of space equipment utilizing consumer goods on orbit).

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2017/11/20171113_ss-520-5_j.html