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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.
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The HTV was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan on Thursday and is expected to reach the ISS on September 17 with a cargo of food, science experiments and other hardware.
Space shuttle Discovery lands safely in California by AFP / AFP American Edition
The HTV was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan on Thursday and is expected to reach the ISS on September 17 with a cargo of food, science experiments and other hardware.
Space shuttle Discovery lands safely in California by AFP / AFP Global Edition
The rocket blasted off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on a southern Japanese island, with the HTV carrying 4.
Japan sends first cargo spacecraft to ISS by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
 
 
 
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