IMAGE 200_299\212.Lbm,Blasting off the pad at NASDA's Tanagashima launch site is an N-1 launch vehicle carrying a communications satellite.
IMAGE 200_299\213.Lbm,The image top right, sent back by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the most remote planet, Pluto, and its moon Charon. It is the clearest picture yet of the system.
IMAGE 600_699\625.Lbm,Assembling an N-1 launch vehicle at NASDA's Tanagashima Space Centre.
IMAGE 600_699\626.Lbm,Japan's engineering test satellite or Kiku 5 (ETS-5), placed in geostationary orbit in 1987. (NASDA)
IMAGE 600_699\627.Lbm,Japan's geostationary meteorological satellite Himawari 3 (GMS-3), placed in geostationary orbit in 1984.
IMAGE 600_699\628.Lbm,Japan's communications satellite Sakura 2b (CS-2b), placed in geostationary orbit in August 1983.
IMAGE 600_699\629.Lbm,Work proceeds at NASDA's Tanagashima Space Centre on mating the direct broadcasting satellite Yuri 2a (BS-2a) with its N-2 launch vehicle.
IMAGE 600_699\630.Lbm,Japan's direct broadcasting satellite Yuri 2a, launched into geostationary orbit in 1984. (NASDA)