Comments on: Japan’s H3 rocket successfully completes its fifth launch https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japans-h3-rocket-successfully-completes-its-fifth-launch/ Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:13:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japans-h3-rocket-successfully-completes-its-fifth-launch/#comment-1549293 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:13:08 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111861#comment-1549293 I seem to remember an article where there were discussions about docking port designs—where folks from Japan constantly re-did everything.

Pageantry seems to play a role. I think it was Operation Whitecoat that did a more scientific type of research:

https://www.blueridgenow.com/story/news/2004/01/26/adventist-helped-biological-weapons-study/28146747007/

An interesting aside
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/when-apollo-went-japan-180974469/

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japans-h3-rocket-successfully-completes-its-fifth-launch/#comment-1549130 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:45:35 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111861#comment-1549130 In reply to Dick Eagleson.

Dick Eagleson: This absurd and annoying verbal countdown has been routine for at least all of the H3 launches as well as the last few H2B launches. Before that JAXA didn’t provide a live stream as far as I can remember.

In other words, they haven’t a clue.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japans-h3-rocket-successfully-completes-its-fifth-launch/#comment-1549121 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:09:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111861#comment-1549121 Heartily second your annoyance at the seemingly endless countdown. I haven’t watched all that many JAXA webcasts, but I don’t recall this particular verbal annoyance being a feature of any previous such. If this is, indeed, some mid-level JAXA bureaucrat’s recent innovation one can only hope he sees fit to commit honorable seppuku before the next launch webcast.

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