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Tanega-shima |
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Tanega-shima (tänā`gä-shĭmä), island, 176 sq mi (456 sq km), off S Kyushu, Japan. Fishing and farming are important there. It is the site of Japan's main rocket launch center and a space satellite tracking station. Mendez Pinto, a Portuguese voyager on his way to China, landed (1543) there and introduced firearms to Japan. The name of the island came to mean "firearms" to the Japanese. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The launch is scheduled for January 19, 2006, at 10:33 AM JST at the Tanegashima Space Center. 18 on a NASA spacecraft on an H2 rocket from Tanegashima, Japan. The launch vehicles will lift off from the Space Center in Tanegashima, Japan. |
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