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Tanegashima Space Centre

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Tanegashima Space Centre

Japanese rocket-launching site on a small island off southern Kyushu.

Tanegashima is now run by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) following a merger in October 2003 of four space organizations. One of them, the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), ran Tanegashima up to that time, being responsible for the practical applications of Japan's space programme (research fell under a separate organization based at Kagoshima Space Centre). NASDA, founded in 1969, turned over to JAXA its headquarters in Tokyo; a tracking and testing station, the Tsukuba Space Centre, in eastern central Honshu; and an Earth-observation centre near Tsukuba.



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