Nozomi (spacecraft)

is the name of a Japanese spacecraft which was sent toward Mars.

The launch was a project of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the University of Tokyo.

The spacecraft was launched on July 3, 1998.JAXA,  "Catalogue of ISAS Missions" ; retrieved 2012-4-24. 

Nozumi was planned as a Mars-orbiting probe.  The mission was not successful because of electrical failures.  

The Nozumi probe project was ended on December 31, 2003.

International partnership
Nozomi carried scientific instruments from Japan, Canada, Germany, Sweden and the United States.NASA, "Nozomi" ; retrieved 2012-4-24. including the European Space Agency, NASA and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics.Harvey, Brian et al. (2010).  Emerging Space Powers: The New Space Programs of Asia, the Middle East and South-America, p. 54.

Canada provided a thermal plasma analyser. This was the Canadian Space Agency's first participation in an interplanetary mission.Canadian Space Agency (CSA),  "Nozomi's mission to Mars" ; retrieved 2012-4-24.

 References 

 Other websites 

 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Nozomi (Planet-B) mission profile 
 National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), Nozomi 

Category:Japanese space program
Category:Canada
Category:Spacecraft launched in the 1990s