Uchinoura Space Center

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M-V rocket at the Uchinoura Space Center (Febr. 2000)

The Uchinoura Space Center is a space launch facility close of the Japanese city Uchinoura, in Kagoshima Prefecture. Before the establishment of the JAXA space agency in 2003, it was simply called the Kagoshima Space Center. All Japan's scientific satellites are launched from Uchinoura. Additionally, the centre has antennas for communication with interplanetary space probes.

See also: Uchinoura Space Center, 2003, JAXA, Japan, Kagoshima Prefecture, Uchinoura