Hinode
M-V
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Launch Status
SuccessMission
Hinode
Type: Heliophysics
Japanese solar observatory designed to stury the Sun
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Location
Mu Center
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
43 rockets have launched from Uchinoura Space Center, Japan.

Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency – JAXA
- Type: Government
- Abbreviation: JAXA
- Administration: Administrator: Hiroshi Yamakawa
- Founded: 2003
- Launchers: H-II
- Country: JPN
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan’s national aero-space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and the launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions, such as asteroid exploration and possible manned exploration of the Moon. JAXA launch their Epsilon vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center and their H-II vehicles from the Tanegashima Space Center.