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H-IIA 2024 | Kizuna
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency · H-IIA 2024 · Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's 24th launch · 1st this year · humanity's 4,892nd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Feb 23, 08:55 – Feb 23, 08:55 UTC
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Kizuna
WINDS, also called Kizuna, is currently under joint development by JAXA and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, as part of the e-Japan Priority Policy Program of the Japanese government's IT strategy headquarters. WINDS was launched by an H-IIA Launch Vehicle in 2008 to establish the world's most advanced information and telecommunications network. It is expected that this information and telecommunications network's speed and capacity will be much higher than anything achieved previously. The WINDS satellite communication system aims for a maximum speed of 155 Mbps (receiving) / 6 Mbps (transmitting) for households with 45-centimeter aperture antennas (the same size as existing Communications Satellite antennas), and ultra-fast 1.2 Gbps transmission for offices with five-meter antennas.
Communications · Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
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