Tanegashima Credit - © Mark Wade

Type: Orbital Launch Site. Operator: Japan. Country: Japan. Latitude: 30.39096 deg. Longitude: 130.96813 deg. Minimum Inclination: 99.0 degrees. Maximum Inclination: 99.0 degrees.

Japan's main launch site for he larger N and H launch vehicles. In use for sounding rockets from 1967 and orbital launches from 1975. As of 2007 over 140 major launches had been made from the site.

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Launch Pads

• N - Latitude: 30.3996 deg. Longitude: 130.9703 deg. Used by: Delta, J. N Launch Complex

• Q - Latitude: 30.3859 deg. Longitude: 130.9622 deg. Used by: Mu. Q Launch Complex

• T - Latitude: 30.3772 deg. Longitude: 130.9631 deg. Used by: Lambda, MT-135, S, TR-1. Takesaki Launch Site

• Y - Latitude: 30.4012 deg. Longitude: 130.9769 deg. Used by: H-2. Yoshinobu Launch Complex

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General / Launch Complex Unknown Chronology

2008 February 23 - 08:55 GMT - Launch Vehicle: H-2. Kizuna Mass: 2,700 kg (5,900 lb). Spacecraft: Kizuna. Perigee: 35,775 km (22,229 mi). Apogee: 35,799 km (22,244 mi). Inclination: 0.00 deg. Period: 1,436.10 min. WINDS, the Wide-band Internetworking Engineering Test and Demonstration Satellite, was designed to demonstrate delivery of high bandwidth Ka-band Internet service to remote areas of Japan and Southeast Asia from geostationary orbit at 143 deg E. Users with a small 45 cm in diameter antenna could receive data at up to 155 Mbps and transmit data at up to 6 Mbps.