Uchinoura Space Center
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The Uchinoura Space Center is a space launch facility close to the Japanese city of Uchinoura, in Kagoshima Prefecture. Before the establishment of the JAXA space agency in 2003, it was simply called the Kagoshima Space Center. All Japan's scientific satellites are launched from Uchinoura. Additionally, the centre has antennas for communication with interplanetary space probes.
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- Uchinoura Space Center(JAXA)
- Encyclopedia Astronautica [1]
- Location on Google Maps [2]