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Launch Successful - Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS)
23 January 2006
The launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 8 (H-IIA F8) with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi" (ALOS) onboard was postponed after JAXA took some extra time to investigate a malfunction discovered in one of the ground facilities which monitors the temperature of the air conditioner for the payload fairing during countdown operations.
The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 8 (H-IIA F8) with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "Daichi"(ALOS) onboard was launched at 10:33 a.m. on January 24, 2006 (Japan Standard Time, JST.) The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and, at 16 minutes and 30 seconds after liftoff, the Daichi separation was confirmed.
The Perth first mobile station in Australia started receiving signals from the ALOS at 10:52 a.m. (JST), and by those signals, JAXA confirmed that the solar array paddle deployment was successfully completed.
The ALOS satellite will be carrying two high-resolution optical (AVNIR-2 and PRISM) and one L-band fully polarimetric SAR instruments (PALSAR). You can keep up-to-date with the launch details here.
For more details about the launch, please refer to the following website: ALOS / H-IIA F8 COUNTDOWN
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Source: JAXA
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