Japanese space program | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/05/2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_space_program


00:01:11 1 History
00:01:20 1.1 Dawn
00:03:05 1.2 Early days
00:05:22 1.3 Launch of Ohsumi
00:08:10 1.4 Successful development
00:14:44 1.5 Integration and institutional failure
00:19:34 1.6 Currently
00:23:13 2 Organization
00:24:42 2.1 Facilities
00:25:09 2.2 Defunct facilities
00:25:24 2.3 Companies
00:25:48 2.4 Rocket range
00:28:09 3 Goals
00:28:58 4 Oriented development



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Japan's space exploration originated in the mid-1950s as a research group led by Hideo Itokawa at the University of Tokyo. Rocket sizes increased gradually from less than 30 cm (12 in) at the start of the project to over 15 m (49 ft) in the mid-1960s. The aim of the original research project was to launch a man-made satellite.
By the 1960s, two organizations, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), were developing their own rockets. After experiencing numerous failures in the 1990s and 2000s, ISAS and NASDA merged — along with the National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) — to form the unified Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2003.