100% agree-great success. World-class science, even with all of the launch restrictions they had.

The Brits......*SIGH*..... The Conservatives can never see an investment when they see one. And the Liberals seem to be so hyper-focused on domestic programs to save the poor, that they always destroy the military and high tech industries through starvation. The UK once led the world in Aerospace, electronics, and computers. Then they just pissed it away along with their empire in the name of saving money. I see the same thing happening here in the US if the budget hawks in the GOP ever get full control. They will cut the shit out of everything and our technology base and infrastructure will wither away. When will the so called budget hawks realize that every government investment in research pays massive dividends down the road. We have been living off of the technology base created by the Cold War and Project Apollo for 60 years.

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I am not sure what you are talking about here. The first entirely french satellite was launched on a Diamant rocket in 1965 from Algeria. The satellite was named Asterix and the rocket has been developed as part of France's "gemstones" project. There may have been some technical exchange with the US but it was not an US launch vehicle. That makes them the third nation to launch a satellite on their own. They have been followed 5 years later by Japan, the PRC and the UK. Within that time frame, France launched 6 satellites on their Diamant launcher (5 successes and one partial success).

Glad you enjoyed it!

That is completely understandable and there is nothing wrong with that. Since Japan/JAXA is/was the leading part of those projects, contributing the most in terms of money, resources technology and science. The same goes for any NASA project where usually JAXA and European Space Agencies are a part too, but still they aren't usually named/center stage when the focus is specifically on NASA and their projects. I mean what do you expect when clicking on a video titled "Japan space program"...the history of the Indian space program?!

It's actually not from the limitation, more of just a tongue in cheek

@@user-cr4sc1ht9t are you saying they aren't actually forbidden to? They intentionally limit themselves just for show?

Lambda series had no "guidance systems" that could be used for nefarious purposes, who knows tf it means, and angled launch was partly necessary for unguided gravity turn on an aerodynamic and spin-stabilized rocket that it was. That "guidance system" requirement was dropped soon after so later vehicles such as M-V technically could have launched upright. There's no particular technical or legal reasons angled launch makes a rocket more lawful and peaceful. I suspect the video author was confused by various translated Japanese materials that are plagued by errors in the first place especially when it comes to ISAS. ISAS has been somewhat secretive, or rather always trying to be open but horrible at communicating with non-academics, and also secretly being ultra patriotic bunches. Angled launches, horizontal integration, insistence on solid motors, etc. Even after unification into JAXA in 2000s they were talking "mobile launch" concept that aims to make a rapid one-person launch possible. Doesn't that sound so peaceful? I find it a very calming concept. The rockets can be stored on a trailer somewhere, pulled out in haste, easily integrated with a small payload supplied from the very upset custromer, and launched on extremely short notice into an orbit, requiring just handful of specialists and couple off the shelf laptops in a nearby shack. Extremely peaceful concept with the most straightforward explanation possible, right? Soon after L-4S-5 managed to insert the first Japanese object on orbit, the US intervened and accelerated establishment of NASDA, which is a completely separete and parallel Japanese space agency to ISAS that is not as unhinged and more focused on human spaceflight. Notably, the US dumped bunch of Delta II-related documents very generously to NASDA like ITAR has never been a thing, and N-I, N-II, H-I, and H-II series of NASDA launch vehicles came of it with Mitsubishi as primary contractor. Those were hydrolox LVs that require substantial launch site support equipment and long fuel loading time, which makes it useless in nuclear warfare and make them actually more peaceful, and make it much less meaningful to do an all-indigenous rocket that ISAS was doing. The Kibo ISS module and HTV cargo vehicle were both developed and operated by NASDA and then JAXA. Important part of this is ISAS and NASDA co-existed, and still exists to some extent under JAXA, as completely separate and parallel entities to one another. Neither is a military or para-military, just two civilian space agencies doing one solid and one liquid. But angled launch wasn't a requirement, just a tradition ISAS took and kept from Lambda legacy.

​@@user-cr4sc1ht9tthank you for taking the trouble to share this very detailed exposé

No restrictions they would have been like their anime, world conquering.

Imagine the mechs in space

They would live comfortably by now if they kept what they gained and not expanded further into China then attacked the US.

Actually it was 1971 !

@@averteddisasterbarely2339​@averteddisasterbarely2339 Thanks for troubling to reply. Ariel series started in '62. I think you are referring to Prospero launched on a Black Knight vehicle from Woomera in late 1971. Overall the Brits did quite well until government got the better of the nation. My offspring live a stone's throw from the cliff edge engine test site on the Isle of Wight (open freely to the public to see what might have been).

I don't see Japan going really further in space exploration

Or the moon lander flopping 😂

Japan can rearm when they've acknowledged their war crimes, a people polite but without honour

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yup, they are super tiny. the can carry in relation to their mass more or less the same amount of fuel. in theory no limit how small can be an orbital rocket, in practice some parts have limits, but still can be very small. also those early scientific instruments are really simple: pressure sensor, temp gauge, maybe some radiological device (very small gm tube or similar.) the micrometeorite detector sounds fancy, but in reality it was little more than a tinfoil exposed to the outside for a few seconds.

All of the smaller rockets that were mentioned were sub-orbital. You only need to fight gravity up to 100km to reach space, but to reach orbit you need an additional 7 km per second of velocity! Also, 5000cm is 50 meters. That's a *good-sized* rocket. The Rocket Lab Electron is only 20m and it sure as hell can put satellites in space.