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post Apr 6 2008, 03:34 PM
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JAXA has a new mission called TOPS (Telescope Observatory for Planets on Small-satellite). It is a 300 kg satellite with two 30 cm telescopes. Launch is for February 2012 with the M-V successor.
The reason why i put it here and not in the astronomy section, is that it will be used for atmosphere observations of the planets, especially Mars, only. (but also Mercury observation, Venus, Jupiter etc.) This mission will be complementary to the Mars orbiters.

you can take a look at the Japanese wikipedia.
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- spdf   Mission TOPS   Apr 6 2008, 03:34 PM
- - Zvezdichko   Actually I don't see how a mission of this typ...   Apr 6 2008, 03:45 PM
- - Mongo   This looks like a very good use of a limited budge...   Apr 6 2008, 04:47 PM

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