Titlebook: Japan In Space; Past, Present and Fu Brian Harvey Book 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 Asian Space Race.Asteroid Itokawa and Hayab

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Infrastructure and Organization,a, Sagamihara). There is a network of tracking stations with 15 dishes across the Japanese islands and further afield. Japan’s rocket fleet combines two lines of development: solid fuel and liquid fuel, the two current flagships being Epsilon and H3 respectively. The programme is controlled by a com

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Conclusion: Japan in Comparative Asian and Global Perspective,hievements and promise, it was China that became Asia’s space superpower with a full-spectrum programme. Japan is a medium-range power, like India and Europe. Japan’s launch rate is low, typically two to three a year and never more than seven. Its spending puts it behind the US, Europe and China but

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Space Science,mble sounding rockets, their origins going back to the 1950s, enabled the continuation of a limited but valuable range of scientific missions. The missions from Tansei (1971) through to Arase (2016) constitute an unbroken thread of small scientific satellites, ‘Hideo Itokawa’s dream’.

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Deep Space,busa 2 to Ryugu (2014) which demonstrated Japanese technology at its finest. Both travelled across the solar system to successfully collect samples and deliver them back to Earth, the scientific outcomes rewriting the history of the early solar system. The first Hayabusa was almost lost, its eventua

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Infrastructure and Organization, faring nations, matched in benign competition by the Chinese-hosted Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO). International cooperation is focussed on the United States, then Europe, but there is little with China or Russia despite their proximity. Japan has a programme of space educatio