You're still a couple years away but are you planning on doing Ōsumi and its launcher the Lambda-4S? That's exciting as I've loved the challenge in having an unguided lifter like that. I may have some reference photos of the sat somewhere from when I visited an exhibition of Japanese Aerospace tech a couple years ago if you're interested. I'll double check and see if any are worth having for your current time frame.
I think it's also interesting-- being that Japan was not allowed to make a rocket that could be used as a weapon (guided missile)-- that they made it a pretty hands off flight once off the pad. It ran in 4 stages (all solid) and would be launched at an angle from the pad. It's worth a mention but I'm just very partial to it as I live only ~10 minutes away from one of the last whole ones on display (look at the wiki entry and you'll see the one I'm talking about as the main pic).
You're still a couple years away but are you planning on doing Ōsumi and its launcher the Lambda-4S? That's exciting as I've loved the challenge in having an unguided lifter like that. I may have some reference photos of the sat somewhere from when I visited an exhibition of Japanese Aerospace tech a couple years ago if you're interested. I'll double check and see if any are worth having for your current time frame.
I have not done much research about that, though I do at least know its name. What "spaceflight first" did it carry out?
First Japanese satellite.
Ah ok, well all "country firsts" get at least a mention.
I think it's also interesting-- being that Japan was not allowed to make a rocket that could be used as a weapon (guided missile)-- that they made it a pretty hands off flight once off the pad. It ran in 4 stages (all solid) and would be launched at an angle from the pad. It's worth a mention but I'm just very partial to it as I live only ~10 minutes away from one of the last whole ones on display (look at the wiki entry and you'll see the one I'm talking about as the main pic).
Here's a little more info on it if you're curious http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/rockets/vehicles/l-4s/index.shtml and of course http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/ohsumi.shtml