Posted on 02/17/2016 11:47:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: On February 17 at 5:45pm JST this H-IIA rocket blasted skyward from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center located off the southern coast of Japan, planet Earth. Onboard was the ASTRO-H X-ray astronomy satellite, now in orbit. Designed to explore the extreme cosmos from black holes to massive galaxy clusters, the satellite observatory is equipped with four cutting-edge X-ray telescopes and instruments sensitive to photon energies from 300 to 600,000 electron volts. By comparison, visible light photon energies are 2 to 3 electron volts. Following a tradition of renaming satellites after their successful launch, ASTRO-H has been newly dubbed "Hitomi", inspired by an ancient legend of dragons. Hitomi means "the pupil of the eye".
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[Credit and Copyright: F. Scott Porter (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center)]
Nicely done Japan.
Well said.
While Japan gets on with business, NASA continues its outreach to jihadist murderers and rapists.
‘Hey Kim, watch this.’
A country that can launch a satellite into space orbit, like Japan with its H-IIB rocket system, can deliver a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world. There is no doubt that Japan secretly has nuclear weapons, just like Israel. I’m sure part of the launch of the satellite was to showcase Japan’s technological capabilities. Kudos to Japan.
Ah. I see you’ve read Debt of Honor...
Yep, on the shelf, some assembly required. “why no, we do not have nuclear weapons”. Not assembled, at least.
The postwar Japanese have concentrated on improving their engineering depth and manufacturing quality; as a consequence, they have an advantage over the Chinese in the latter, and probably will retain it even after the Chinese overtake them in engineering (probably inevitable, due to the sheer number of Chinese).
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