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Japan Joins The Space Business

Posted by Hemos on from the making-money-in-space dept.

jukal writes "CNN writes: "Today's launch marks a major step towards commercialization of Japan's satellite launch business," said an official of the National Space Development Agency (NASDA). Payload: a data relay satellite and an unmanned space experiment recovery system. Detailed launch report is here."

17 comments

  1. Greeat! by Gamasta · · Score: 0

    More orbital garbage, more walking blinking things to watch at sunrise/set... I'm kind of blind, so it's pretty hard to find sattelites.

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  2. At what cost? by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Japan has been working its way slowly into the space business for a long time, including some embarrassing setbacks. I wonder how much of it is subsidized. IOW, it may be for political or nationalistic reasons rather than to make money (any time soon).

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    1. Re:At what cost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      for (int i = 0; i 1000000; i++)
      {
      You're a fucking troll.
      }

    2. Re:At what cost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      for (int i = 0; i 1000000; i++)
      {
      You still have no real evidence
      }

    3. Re:At what cost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      while theory_is_unprovable do
      begin
      console.print('lack of subjective evidence does neither proves nor disproves your assertion');
      end;

      //that's right, i used pascal just to make you mad

    4. Re:At what cost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Redundant"? Where the hell is the original? Fucken moderators! Can't even put keys in their data records.

    5. Re:At what cost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      IT WORKED, Pascal sucks! I'm fuming over here! Livid!

  3. USERS experiments by masterkool · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is a HTML document of the USERS project description. It has just about everything about the project. Its pdf counterpart is also available.

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    1. Re:USERS experiments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      someone mod this guy up. PDF was great!

  4. Re:Prepare for War! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    AtheWhat?

  5. Re:Prepare for War! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You my freind, are the shining example of the kind of people that are going tear this planet apart.

    How about, instead of viewing people by such trivial standards as religion, creed, and geography, but as Human Beings, for those outdated and trivial paradigms are what drives the unending hatred that exists on this world.

    We are entering a time where all nations, all people will be in it for the speicies, for too long squabbles and rantings like this have resulted in disaster and genocide, The Crusades, World War Two, Manifest Destiny (both Soviet, European, and American), Jihads, honestly my freind, you sound like the embodiment of everything the world has tried to forget and move past.

    You sound like Hitler, just like Hitler, so much like Hitler it is chilling, but if you insist on trying to start another Holocaust, go ahead and try, the American, Canadian, British, European and all other nations of decent and moral people will overcome and obliterate it just like we have before.

    You call yourself and American.

  6. NASDA by lommer · · Score: 1

    did they HAVE to name it NASDA?

    man that is going to get confusing...