Uchinoura Space Center (Kimotsuki)
Japan /
Kagoshima /
Shibushi /
Kimotsuki /
南方
World
/ Japan
/ Kagoshima
/ Shibushi
World / Japan / Kagoshima
spaceport, rocket launch pad
The Uchinoura Space Center (内之浦宇宙空間観測所, Uchinoura uchū kūkan kansokusho?) is a space launch facility close to the Japanese city of Uchinoura, in Kagoshima Prefecture. Before the establishment of the JAXA space agency in 2003, it was simply called the Kagoshima Space Center (鹿児島宇宙空間観測所, Kagoshima Space Center?). All Japan's scientific satellites were launched from Uchinoura prior to the M-V launch vehicles being decommissioned. Additionally, the centre has antennas for communication with interplanetary space probes global.jaxa.jp/about/centers/usc/index.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchinoura_Space_Center
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 31°15'12"N 131°4'47"E
- Vostochny Cosmodrome 2334 km
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center 2973 km
- Baikonur Cosmodrome 5966 km
- Iran's space launch base Shahrud 6857 km
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome 6989 km
- Vandenberg Air Force Base (VBG/KVBG) 9526 km
- Spaceport America 10633 km
- Blue Origin's Spaceport 10896 km
- Kennedy Space Center 12563 km
- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) 12575 km
- 34-meter telemetry antenna (Uchinoura Space Center) 0.1 km
- KS Launch Pad (Uchinoura Space Center) 0.2 km
- Mu and Epsilon Launch Facilities (Uchinoura Space Center) 0.3 km
- Uchinoura Galaxy Arena 2.7 km
- National Sanatorium Hoshizuka-Keiai'en 23 km
- Mt. Inaodake 24 km
- Kagoshima Bay 43 km
- Solar panels farm 52 km
- Mageshima Island 61 km
- Potential USA airbase 61 km