Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) will launch the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE: SELenological and Engineering Explorer) using H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.13 (H-IIA F13) from Tanegashima Space Center.



http://h2a.mhi.co.jp/en/f13/index.html

http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/overview_kaguya_e.html
http://h2a.mhi.co.jp/en/f13/overview.html
http://space.jaxa.jp/tnsc/webcam/index_e.shtml

Webstream:

http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/live/weblive_e.html

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Thanks, Desti. Dark and early tomorrow morning I'll read about this launch in the paper.

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Thank you, Desti!!!

Wonder when the US media will allow it to leak...

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

September 14, 2007 (JST)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Lunar Orbit Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) by the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 13 (H-IIA F13) at 10:31:01 a.m. on September 14, 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the Tanegashima Space Center.

The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and, at about 45 minutes and 34 seconds after liftoff, the separation of the KAGUYA was confirmed.

We would like to express our profound appreciation for the cooperation and support of all related personnel and organizations that helped contribute to the successful launch of the KAGUYA aboard the H-IIA F13.

At the time of the launch, the weather was clear, a wind speed was 5.9 m/second from the East South East, and the temperature was 29.8 degrees Celsius.

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

5 days till its at moon then :P, i hope its made artificially then :D.
they got some nice equipment there + the HDTV cam (hehe) :P

Photo archiv:

http://jda.jaxa.jp/jda/p3_e.php?time=N&mode=level&genre=1&category=1001&mission=9038

Jut googled:

Japan moon

Still media blacked out on this here in California.

Lame

Video of launch: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1cf_1189786655

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) will launch the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE: SELenological and Engineering Explorer) using H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.13 (H-IIA F13) from Tanegashima Space Center.



http://h2a.mhi.co.jp/en/f13/index.html

http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/overview_kaguya_e.html
http://h2a.mhi.co.jp/en/f13/overview.html
http://space.jaxa.jp/tnsc/webcam/index_e.shtml

Webstream:

http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/live/weblive_e.html

Thanks for the Info...

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

KAGUYA (SELENE)
Deployment Status of the Solar Array Paddle
September 15, 2007 (JST)

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed that the deployment of the solar array paddle of the "KAGUYA" (SELENE) had been successfully performed at 11:44 a.m. on September 14 (Japan Standard Time, JST) through signals and power generation data from the satellite, as we had explained at the post-launch press conference.
We have acquired an image of the paddle deployment at 11:13 p.m. on the same day (JST) as attached below.

You can also find the image in the following Special Site.

http://www.jaxa.jp/countdown/f13/

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

first Pictures in HDTV

The first high-definition video of Earth from beyond the planet's orbit has just been made by a Japanese satellite on its way to the moon.

Hit Me

and

1.920x1080

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

Sweet!!!

Thanks Ulli!!!

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

for Info, why is the Earth so small



We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

taken from here

http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/pbd.html

Carl Sagan didn't live to see this image of Earth as seen from Mars taken by Mars Global Surveyor in 2003. But he would have loved it.

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

PLEASE JAXA.

Take pictures of the Apollo moon landings that way the conspiracies may end.

KAGUYA (SELENE)
Result of the Lunar Orbit Injection Maneuver (LOI1)
- Lunar orbit injection was confirmed -

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071005_kaguya_e.html

KAGUYA (SELENE)
Result of the Separation of the Relay Satellite (Rstar)
and
Moon Images Shot by the KAGUYA Onboard Camera

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071009_kaguya_e.html

new Images in HDTV

World’s First Image Taking of the Moon by HDTV

Hit Me

Very impressive Pictures

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

PLEASE JAXA.

Take pictures of the Apollo moon landings that way the conspiracies may end.

Nah, even that won't do it. The Moon Hoax Kooks are already saying that the HDTV images/video are fake because there are no stars visible.

You could take these LUNArTICS to the damn Apollo landing sites personally and they'd still say it was fake.

...but, they are right about it all being faked. The Truth? The Truth is that the Moon, itself, is a hoax! The "Moon" is made out of cardboard, illuminated by a spotlight, and held in the sky by a Black Helicopter.

New Image: EarthRise in HDTV

http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/1113_New_Image_EarthRise_in_HDTV.html

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

i guess stars are just not ment to be