Himawari-8 and Himawari-9
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This article was translated and reprinted with permission. Copyright 2014 The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All other rights reserved.

Dr. Diamandis, author of this book, is one of the International Space University founders, and he is also the founder of Ansari X Prize of a suborbital flight. In this way, because he is connected with space very much, this book seems to be appropriate to this column. Since I myself have listened in his presentation at the IAF (International Astronautical Federation) meeting and have met him, I feel to be easy to understand his book. This book review is based on Japanese translation version.
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AIAA ICSSC-2014, which was held on August 5 to 7, 2014 in Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego California, is reported here.

This paper reports
1) Mitsubishi Electric Corporation to Deliver Satellite to Qatari Operator
2) Himawari-8 Successfully Launched
3) Successful operation in orbit -TURKSAT 4A,Completes Construction -TURKSAT 4B
4) New Era of L-band SAR, ALOS-2
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