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The primary mission of the Jan. 21 launch from remote Tanegashima island, where Japan's main space station is based, is to send into orbit a greenhouse-gas monitoring satellite called "Ibuki," which means "breath." But along with the main payload, the rocket will carry seven "baby satellites" - one developed by JAXA, the government space agency, and six created by university research centres and private industry.

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Japan's space agency will launch a satellite later this month to monitor greenhouse gases around the world, officials said Wednesday, hoping the data it collects helps global efforts to combat climate change.
The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), to be launched on January 21, will enable scientists to calculate the density of carbon dioxide and methane from 56,000 locations on the Earth's surface.

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The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) has been created in Japan to monitor emissions from around the planet from space and it is hoped the data it provides will help in the fight against global warming.
The orbiting satellite will track the emission of carbon dioxide and methane, gases that contribute heavily to the greenhouse effect.
Dubbed Ibuki - Japanese for "breath" - the satellite will record greenhouse gas emissions in 56,000 locations across the globe while orbiting the planet once every three days at an altitude of 666km.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced that the launch of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15 (H-IIA F15) with the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT) onboard was approved by the Space Activities Commission (SAC).

Scheduled date of launch: January 21, 2009 (Japan Standard Time, JST)
Launch time: Between 12:54 and 1:16 p.m. (JST)
Launch windows: January 22 (Thu) through 28 (Sat,) 2009 (JST)
Launch Site: Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Centre

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA),  the National Institute for Environment Studies, and the Japanese Ministry of the Environment has chosen the nickname "IBUKI", meaning "breath" or "puff", for  the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) scheduled to be launched this coming winter launch season. The three organisations had asked the general public between July 10 and Sept. 10, 2008, to proposed nicknames for the GOSAT satellite.
Of the 3,789  suggested names, 630 people proposed "IBUKI."

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Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Institute for Environment Studies (NIES) and the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) will jointly launch the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) in Japanese fiscal year 2008 and will start a global observation of greenhouse gases, with an aim to ascertain the global distribution of concentrations of carbon dioxide and other major greenhouse gases, the source/sink status of these gases on the sub-continental basis, and also their temporal variations. The data acquired by GOSAT will be released to the public, after certain data quality evaluation steps, to be utilised by scientists all around the world.

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 ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, convenes the press, Tuesday June 26 at 10 h 30 to mark the last stage of an important contract of 10 M$ to build the main component on the new Japanese satellite GOSAT (Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite). The satellite, which will be launched in 2008 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), will enable Japanese scientists to study and measure greenhouse gases in support of the Kyoto protocol.
At this exceptional occasion, it will be possible to take images of the clean room where the heart of the satellite has been developed, built and tested.

    Date :           Tuesday June 26, 2007
    Time :           10 h 30
    Location :       Garry Vail Room
                     ABB
                     585, boulevard Charest East, 3e floor
                     Quebec


ABB, Analytical Business Unit is located in the heart of the new St-Roch quarter in Quebec City. In Canada, ABB employs over 1,800 people in 24 locations from coast to coast.

The GOSAT was jointly developed by JAXA, Japan's Ministry of the Environment, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) to observe the density of carbon dioxide, one of the gases causing the green house effect. JAXA is in charge of developing and launching the satellite and acquiring data after the launch to provide to the Ministry and the NIES.

GOSAT: Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (icon_pdf.gif, 0.67MB)

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