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=== ALOS === [[File:MTSAT-1.jpg|right|thumb|MTSAT-1]] In January 2006, JAXA successfully launched the [[Advanced Land Observation Satellite]] (ALOS/Daichi). Communication between ALOS and the ground station in Japan will be done through the Kodama Data Relay Satellite, which was launched during 2002. This project is under intense pressure due to the shorter than expected lifetime of the ADEOS II (Midori) Earth Observation Mission. For missions following Daichi, JAXA opted to separate it into a radar satellite ([[ALOS-2]]) and an optical satellite, ([[ALOS-3]]). ALOS 2 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite was launched in May 2014. The ALOS-3 satellite was aboard a [[H3 (rocket)|H3 rocket]] in March 2023, but the satellite was lost in a launch failure when the second stage failed to ignite. [[ALOS-4]], 2's SAR successor, was launched successfully in July 2024. A true successor to ALOS-3 is planned to launch around 2027.
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