Tsukuba Space Center

Tsukuba Space Center - TKSC (Japanese筑波宇宙センター, Tsukuba Uchū Senta, dt " Tsukuba Space Center ") is a operated by the Japanese space agency JAXA control, research and development center in the Japanese city of Tsukuba near Tokyo.

Opened in 1972, the facility houses more than 500,000 m² of a core region of the Japanese aerospace industry. On the site of satellites and rockets are being developed. It was here that, inter alia, the Japanese Kibo module for the International Space Station ISS. Similarly here, the Japanese astronaut to be formed. The lobby also houses the control center are Japanese satellites and space shuttle as the HTV, controlled and monitored from where. The devastating earthquake in March 2011, also taught in Tsukuba heavy damage, so that the operation of the Space Centre has been temporarily suspended. On the site there is also an exhibition hall, will be presented in the visitors and Others models Japanese spacecraft.